Nazi Education Dbq

When the Nazi party came to power in 1933, they saw the education system as a way to shape young minds of children to create a future generation of upstanding citizens in Germany. They made many significant changes to the education system to align it with their ideology. Since the nazis were such a quickly growing force of power they were able to manipulate their way into changing the school system for young children being raised in Germany. Children were taught to treat Jewish People worse, physical education was most important and women’s education changed significantly, and children were taught the Fuhrer's race is the purest and to spread Nazism.

Firstly, Nazi rule changed education in Germany because children were taught to treat Jewish

A young German girl named Ruth slowly distanced herself from her Jewish friends due to Hitler’s hateful speech toward Jewish people. Towards the end, she did not speak to her Jewish classmates at all anymore. She even wrote down people who did talk to them. She did this all because they were Jewish. This goes to show how Hitler’s teachings made people start to react towards Jewish people. Another example of this is shown in document five. In document five, kids who grew up in Germany were taught that Hitler was a Supergod and that the Jews were evil. Jews were even sometimes portrayed as Connotations of the Devil. This suggests that young children were being taught the Jewish people are like the devil and associate with him. When growing up and being told things constantly, you believe. So as horrible as these teachings were, young children did not know any

An example of this is shown in document three, German girls attend school until the age of 14 they went to school Monday through Saturday but had no textbooks and no homework, and their education was minimal except in matters relating to childbirth. “Girls do not require the same sort of Education that is essential for boys. The schools for boys teach military science, military geography, military ideology, and Hitler worship; those for the girls prepare the proper mental set in the future mates of Hitler's soldiers” Clearly there is a disconnect between growing up even as a woman or man in Germany. This theme is further perceived when one of the minister rust’s officials gives his opinion on why co-education is a problem he explains it is because young boys should not have the distraction of females while trying to focus on their academics. To be fair the nazi are not the only ones who did not promote women's rights during this time sexism had been going on for centuries prior but with that being said nazis did not want women to be the face of Germany and that is exactly why education for women in Germany was very