Nazi children and education

• Naze and Young Fessle


  The young were seen as the future of the Third Reich so were an important forget for the Nads
• When the nazi come to power in 1933


  Other youth groups were forcibly merged who the Her Youth
• In December 1936, membership of the Hitler Youth become compulsory
• For boys in the Hitler Youth

  • Military haining was essental
  • They were trained to be workers or in the amed forces
  • They regularly went camping and hiking
• Boys in the Hitler Youth were tought

  • Comradeship and loyalty
  • Competition and ruthlessness
• Boys aged 6-10 years joined the Uffe Fellows (Pimpfe)


  They did mainly outdoor sports type activities such as hiking, rambling and camping
• Boys aged 10-14 years joined the German Young People (Deutsche Jungvolk)


  1. They still did sporting activities but these had a more military emphasis such as parading and marching as well as map reading

  2. They also learnt about Nazi views on racial purity and anti-semitism
• Boys aged 14-18 years joined the Hitler Youth (Hiller Jugend)


  They were prepared to be soldiers by doing military activities
• For girls in the Hitler Youth


  • They had some of the same activities as boys, such as offending rates and swearing caths of loyalty to Her
  • Comping and marching were also compulsory
  • Mainly, girs were hained to be housewives-to cook, iron, make beds and se
• Girls in the Hitler Youth were tought

  • How to marry only Aryan men
  • The importance of a 'pure' German race
  • To look forward to having lots of children
• Girls aged 10-14 years joined the Young Maidera Uungmade


  1. They were fought good health practices as well as how to become good mothers and housewives

  2. They also learnt about Nazi views on racial purity and onti-semilsm
• Girls aged 14-21 joined the League of German Maidena (Deutscher Model)


  They were futher prepared for their roles as the mother of future Germans
• Changes in education under the Nazis

  • School day increased from 8am-6pm
  • 5 hours of PE a day, 15% of time
  • Girls-Domestic Service, needlework
  • Boys-Military focussed education
• All-Genetics and Race Studies
• Chants and Oaths to Hiffer, lessons all began and ended with 'Heil Hitler'
• Teachers who they did not approve of were sacked
• All teachers had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler
• The Nazi Teachers League was set up to train teachers how to teach Nazism
• Hitler was convinced that he could shape young people into perfect Germans by controlling what they learned at school and how they spent their free time.
• nazi leaders wanted to create a new generation of loyal, obedient citizens who would be proud of their country and willing to fight for it if necessary.