Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler considered education to be a very important factor in Nazi Germany. 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’s view on education was that it served a sole purpose – to ensure that a child was loyal to the Nazi state to ensure that the Third Reich lasted for 1000 years. A lot of the Nazi education system also reflected Hitler’s educational experiences. After his failure to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna Hitler developed a loathing of intellectuals who in his opinion based their teaching on what could be learned behind desks or in lectures halls.
When the NAZIs
All teachers had to be inspected by local Nazi officials; any teacher considered disloyal was sacked. Teachers who didn’t approve of the new educational requirements were sent to month long training courses and instructed on how and why to teach the new curriculum. All Jewish teachers were forced out of their jobs and female teachers were encouraged to return home and take up their domestic duties and become a wife and mother because this was the part of the Nazi ideology.
There isn’t much information to suggest that the Nazis didn’t use schools to indoctrinate young people. The only conflicting evidence is that they used other methods to indoctrinate young people, such as the Hitler Youth and propaganda. The Nazis had a series of youth groups to “educate” young people outside of the schools, they taught boys to be warriors and girls were taught to be wives and mothers. For children for ages 10 -14 there was the German Young People (boys) and League Of Young Girls (girls) set up and for children aged 14 – 18 there was the Hitler Youth (boys) and the League of German Girls