Nazism Education: IndoctrinationDuring 25 years from 1920 to 1945 the education of the German Youth was taken by the Nazi regime. They wanted to create a kind of students with a different view of the world.
To achieve this, boys and girls of ten years old, enter Nazi’s
organizations to get a little fresh air of the movement.
This was wrong because the children will grow up with a single point of
view and isolated from the rest of the world.
Four years later, when they were in their fourteens, they get into the Hitler youth organization and stay there for another four years. At that age, almost 18, they were ready to belong to the German arm forces.
As we can see, this method was a way of introducing propaganda in the
minds of millions of children which will later serve and obey the Nazi regime.
All of these methods were contrary to the universal way of teaching, that enables
us to perform as world citizens with open criteria’s and strong values for our
countries and neighbors.
The ideas that were taught, glorify Nordic and other Aryan races, while denigrating the other ones calling them an inferior class, incapable of creating culture or civilizations.
The teachers of these schools that didn’t obey to these ideas were thrown out from the school system because they were pointed as Jews or politically unreliable. Almost 300,000 persons were these teachers that later joined the Nazi party, becoming the biggest number of any other profession.
As an example, devotion to the Nazi regime was very important in the
training for these students, making Hitler’s birthday, April 20, a national
holiday were they swore fidelity and loyalty to Hitler and make promises to
serve the nation and its leader as future soldiers.
The schools also played an important role spreading the Nazi ideas. As
an example, the classical and traditional books were removed from the
classrooms, and were replaced by new textbooks that taught the students
obedience, militarism, racism, love for Hitler and anti-Semitism.
In every classroom, there was a portrait of Adolf Hitler and the books
frequently described the emotion of a child seeing the German leader for the
first time. Toys were also a part of the racial and political propaganda that
was given to the German Youth.
The principal instruments that the Nazi regimes use to spread their
beliefs and theory were these two organizations, the Hitler Youth and the
League of German girls. They receive an education oriented in a single way (to
praise Hitler), sometimes more than their own families.
In 1936 membership in Nazi youth groups, became obligatory for all boys
and girls between 10 and 17 years.
There was camping trips oriented to train the children to be loyal to
the Nazi party and their future leaders. Sports and outdoor activities were
combined and always having the ideology as the goal to achieve.
In 1945, the German forces surrendered and during the following years,
the Allies started “de – Nazification process” by training the students, the
youth and the Germans into new ways of democracy in order to forget the effects
of this 25 years of Nazi propaganda that
were taught.
As a conclusion we can say that these kind of education has not a good
end because in life whatever is imposed by force doesn’t have the positives
results that are expected. By the other hand, when people are free to choose
their education, we can see a better future for the world.
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