Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Nazi Youth Policies and Education Assessment

Using the green book, complete the focus task on page 204 (Nos. 1 & 2) that involves an assessment of Nazi Youth policies and education

Hitler's goal was to control the life of every single person in Germany. The youth was Germany's future so Hitler wanted to brand his Nazi ideas into their brains so in about 20 years the German people will still be living in a Nazi Germany.
Hitler had many methods to convert people to his side. He mostly used the education and schools to target the youth. For example the Nazis had gone through all of the text books and changed everything to make it seem like Jews were bad and Nazis were the good guys. Like in source 29, it's a math problem that's pretty, much giving the kids the message that all Jews are aliens who are living in Germany. The Nazis drilled ideas into the youth's heads about anyone who wasn't German and they also tried to teach them the ways of the military, which you can see in Source 32. Every single subject that the kids took, even chemistry, had to focus on military subjects.
These children were brainwashed and told the same thing everyday. So to them everything was normal. Such as inspectors checking up on their teachers and the regulation of their parents' working practices. The youth movements attracted so many children because they're being taught to be loyal to no one but Hitler and that he's this wonderful guy, so they look up to him. Plus if their parents don't agree with them and they're feeling alienated from their parents then they'd probably want to go hang out with people who share the same beliefs as them.
Although many kids were for the Nazi youth movements, there were a few who weren't. Most of those kids who weren't for the Youth programs made a few rebellious groups. A couple groups were the 'Swing' movement and The Edelweiss Pirates. These kids were mainly middle and working-class, ages 14-17, and they would always go to parties and play American and English music. The reason for these groups was because the kids didn't want the Nazis controlling their lives.

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