Nazis Law Against The Overcrowding Of German Schools

Clearly from all of the hands that were forming the typical German education, Nazism was a major theme. By molding the minds of the young into what they wanted them to be, the Nazi could take control much more easily with them already prepared for what war has to offer. Students were being taught the fundamentals of war instead of the fundamentals of life and further knowledge. The older generation, who had already lived through one world war, didn’t want to endure another. They knew what it had done to their homes, their lives, and their economy. They were less optimistic about this time around, for good reason. Hitler once said, “If the older generation cannot get used to us, we will take away the children and rear them in our spirit”.

“The Nazi ‘Law against the Overcrowding of German Schools’ of April 1933 established a quota of 1.5 percent total enrollment for Jews”. There were, of course, exceptions to this rule, but not many. When Jewish children went to school, they were faced with Nazism in full swing. School was the place that Nazism was being pushed on and they were the cause of it all. Jewish children in German schools were beaten, bullied, and treated unfairly by most of their teachers. For an example, many times students are assigned Nazi themed essays. The Jewish students are required to write an essay on a completely different topic that was never discussed in class. Regardless of how well the essay was written, the Jewish student never got the deserved grade on the essay. Jewish children were not allowed to attend, much less participate in out of school activities such as sporting games and other school festivities. The chance of a Jewish child being victimized increased when in a small town or village. This and many other reasons made it so that most Jewish children left school by age 14. If the student had a trace of Jewish decent in them, they were not exempt for the brutal treatment from the other children. Even if the child had one Jewish parent and one Aryan parent, they were still ridiculed and treated as poorly as a student whose parents were both Jewish. The parents of these children could never fully know the extent to which their children were being abused at school, both physically, mental, and verbally. The education of the Jewish children affected them almost more than the education of the Aryan German child. Jewish children would, in small amounts, being somewhat tortured at school. They would come home to their parents and explain to them what had happened that day. This was the time that the parent had the decision to keep their child in these schools to at least get some form of