The changes made to education once the Nazis gained power

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  • All children played musical instruments and learned Nazi songs
  • Young people also took part in parades
  • Girls were taught how to be good mothers and how to cook
  • There was a lot of importance placed on the physical fitness of girls so exercise was compulsory
  • All teachers had to join the Nazi Teachers League and attend special training courses
  • All subjects and books that the Nazis disagreed with were replaced
  • All lessons had to begin with a salute to Hitler and a large picture of him dominated every classroom
  • Political education was introduced as a school subject
  • Teachers humiliated Jewish children and racist ideas were regularly taught
  • Children were told that Germans were the Master Race
  • Nazi officials who would question pupils about their teachers often visited schools
  • Teachers would get young children to report things their parents said
  • Children were indoctrinated at school as the emphasis was on German History and Biology and how Germans were the superior race
  • Children were also taught to be Anti-Semitic and pick on Jewish children
  • Subjects changed once the Nazis gained power as there was a major focus on PE and the fitness of children
  • From 1935 Jewish children were not allowed to attend school with Aryan Germans