Class Year
2019
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2019
Department 1
History
Abstract
This essay investigates the sweeping educational reforms that the Nazi government implemented to use elementary education to further its political goals. Along with the major laws concerned, it concentrates on several personal accounts of families and students during this era to better understand how these educational reforms affected Germans. Additionally, it analyzes the Hitler Youth and other such recreational organizations that the Nazis created to continue to mold students’ ideologies. It examines the stories of several people who were children in these organizations and what their impressions were of the groups. Finally, it places these Nazi reforms in the context of the post-1945 period of denazification and reconstruction.
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Recommended Citation
James, Ian R., "Education in Nazi Germany" (2019). Student Publications. 715.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/715
Comments
Written for Hist 418: Nazism