The Effects of Nazi Rule on Youth in Germany

The Effects of Nazi Rule on Youth in Germany

Education was an area where policies towards women were applied. The

school curriculum was based around the idea that not many of them

would go on to university. School staff was told to teach with that

thought in mind so that they wouldn't teach them anything unnecessary,

only things they would need to know in a German home. Crafts and

skills were encouraged the most because it was what was needed in the

role of a German woman. They knew that women were needed for some

intellectual jobs and so needed to be educated so that they could be

nurses and teachers but only certain girls would need to know this and

it wasn't relevant to the majority of girls.

[IMAGE]This is a timetable of a standard secondary school girl. It

shows how limiting their education was. German women were only taught

things that they "needed". There is a lot of racial studies and

ideology in this timetable and it shows hoe the Nazi's used schools as

a major source to put ideas of Nazi racial theories into their minds.

The girls learnt about their country every morning to give them a head

start to the day ahead of them. They were not taught mathematics; the

only maths they learnt was for measurements in cooking class. They

were taught about Nazi ideas secretly in German class, History class

and Race studies. The girls were being taught about how bad the Jews

were, and were told horrible stories of how they have tried to take

over Germany. The children then were told to go home and feed all this

information to their parents and so it spread. The Nazi's had control

over everything. There were hardly any protests from the s...

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...rk in the fields

18.00 break

8.00 breakfast

18.30 recreation

8.30 work in the fields

19.30 political instruction

12.00 lunch

20.30 supper

13.00 political lecture

21.00 singing

14.00 sports drill

21.30 lights out

16.00 political class

When the war came everything that the Nazi's believed in changed. The

priority for women to be at home changed to them having to work in

factories and assisting the war. They no longer trained women about

motherhood ad domestic things but about the great military struggle.

The preasure of the war forced the nazi's to stop their beliefs about

women and work. Their attitude had changed and now the encouraged,

even demanded that women work in the factories. By the last full year

of the war over 50% of the industrial workers were women.