Change In Education In Nazi Germany After 1933
In conclusion it is apparent that the concept Gleichschaltung was a paramount principle of the Nazi regime. The Nazi classrooms in 1933 changed drastically and a number of programs were implemented that changed German society drastically. The Government thoroughly understood that the future of Nazi Germany was in the younger generation and that by changing the school curriculum manipulating minds from kindergarten to university they could dictate Germany for a thousand years. By maintaining domination with the teachers, implementing the National Socialist Teachers league and forcing them to conform or resign they would maintain order. With the constant use of propaganda in children’s story books and text-books the government managed to indoctrinate from an extremely early age and the combination of education in the classroom and education of the youth in their own time was an extremely powerful tool that enabled the Nazi Government to continuously influence the youth of their nation to the stage that they were the ideal model and future for the Nazi Government. Hitler succeeded in taking over every Germans mind and implementing Gleichschaltung and by taking over the minds of the youth of Germany he took away every persons freedom and controlled the entire nation abolishing every right that they had in order to create the master race and the powerful Nation that he dreamed of.
In his own words Hitler said…
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” |