Young People in Germany

• Hitler believed that young people were crucial to the future of Nazism and aimed to influence them through education and the Hitler Youth.
• Pupils did more Physical Education to prepare them for when they became soldiers or mothers.
• Pupils did less Religion and Ethics because the Nazis did not want them to question things or be too dedicated towards religion instead of Nazism.
• Some questions in textbooks were related to the military, for example, questions in maths books about bombs.
• Special schools were set up for pupils who were doing very well in school and had blonde hair and blue eyes, to be the future leaders of Nazi Germany.
• Jewish children and teachers were forced to leave schools.
• Any teacher who spoke out against the Nazis was sacked.
• Pupils said a prayer to Hitler at lunch.
• Images, statues of Hitler in schools and a lot of Swastika flags.
• The Nazis set up a youth club, the Hitler Youth, to influence young people.
• The Hitler Youth was initially voluntary but eventually became compulsory, meaning young people had to go.
• The Hitler Youth aimed to teach young people how to be good Nazis.
• Boys in the Hitler Youth did a lot of fitness activities, camping and hiking.
• When boys passed a test in the Hitler Youth, they were presented with a dagger.
• Boys in the Hitler Youth wore military style, brown uniforms.
• The Hitler Youth was taught to love Hitler and hate Jews.
• Girls in the League of Young Maidens were taught how to be good wives and mothers.
• Girls in the League of Young Maidens were discouraged from becoming educated.
• The number of women going to university dropped during the Nazi period.