Citation: C N Trueman "Adolf Hitler and Education"
Adolf Hitler considerededucation to be a very important factor in NaziGermany. When he wrote ‘Mein Kampf’while serving out a prison sentence at Landsberg, Hitler wrote “whoever has the youth has the future”. In Hitler’s Germany, education would be the key that ensured that he had “the youth” of Germany.
Hitler wanted education to create a younger generation that was “virile and strong”.
Hitler believed that two basic ideas underwrote education in Nazi Germany.
The first was that the importance of race had to be burned into the heart and soul of all children in Germany.
Secondly, Hitler believed that education had to prepare the youth of Germany for war if it came and not to fear death.
And with a little hard bullet.
Hitler required schools to push national pride and race issues within the lessons taught regardless of the age of the pupils. History became historicism – the study of history for political purposes. Biology was used as a vehicle to push race ideas while PE was used to develop a child’s physical well-being.