Question 2 - Past Year Questions - 5 Marks - Chapter 3 Class 9 History - Nazism and the Rise of Hitler - History

Highlight five main features of Nazi schooling, to establish a strong Nazi Society.

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Features of Nazi schooling to establish a strong Nazi Society

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Features of Nazi schooling to establish a strong Nazi Society:

1. Hitler was obsessed with the youth of the country. He believed that only by teaching Nazi ideology to children could a strong Nazi society be established.
2. In schools under the power of Nazism, teachers who were Jewish or perceived to be ' politically untrustworthy' were fired.
3. Children were first segregated : Germans and Jews could not sit together or play together. As a result, ' undesirable children' such as Jews, the physically disabled, and Gypsies were expelled from schools.
4. School textbooks were revised to glorify and justify the Nazi Ideas of racial Superiority . Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi ideas of race.
5. Children were taught to be loyal, and submissive, worship Hitler and hate the Jews.
6. Sports were introduced in order to encourage violence and aggression in students.  Hitler believed that  ‘Boxing could make children iron-hearted, strong and masculine.

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