Part three: Chapter 8: Social Policy and
practice - Germany 1890 - 1945:
Democracy and Dictatorship - GCSE
AQA History Exam With 100% Correct
Answers
Why was the Nazi German school system changed? - correct answers ✔✔Hitler wanted to use
them to brainwash young Germans into loving him and the Nazi party. He believed that children
who learned to idolise him when they were young would continue to admire him for the rest of
their lives.
He realised that in future he may have to call on these people to put up with hardships, to fight
and perhaps even die for him.
To ensure their loyalty, Hitler used every subject in school to put forward Nazi propaganda and
beliefs.
How did the Nazi German school system change? - correct answers ✔✔In History, students
would learn mainly about great German military victories and how badly Germany was treated
at the end of the First World War.
Geography lessons outlined areas in the world that Germany would soon conquer.
Science lessons concentrated on weapon-making and chemical warfare.
Maths lessons asked students to calculate how much money Germany would save if they got rid
of all disabled people.
The amount of time given over to PE trebled in the 1930s and a new subject, Race Studies
('Eugenics'), appeared on the timetable.
Here, students were taught how to improve their race and about the Nazi belief in the
inferiority of black people, Eastern Europeans and, in particular, Jews. This meant that a whole
generation of young people grew up believing that they were better than other races - and this
could help explain why so many ordinary Germans failed to speak out against the way the Nazis
persecuted other races in the years to come.
, Textbooks were rewritten so that Nazi beliefs were taught as accepted facts, and teachers were
made to put across Nazi ideas in their lessons.
All teachers had to join organisation called German Teachers League, and any who refused to
teach the way that the Nazis wanted were sacked.
Students who were identified by their teachers as potential future Nazi leaders were sent to
special academies known as 'Napolas' (National Political Educational Institutions).
The Hitler Youth Organisation set up schools too, called 'Adolf Hitler Schools.'
After intense training, including exercise, the youngsters who attended these places graduated
as 'ideal Nazis' - clever, tough and fiercely loyal to Hitler.
How did Universities change? - correct answers ✔✔Between 1933 and 1934, 15% of university
lecturers or professors were replaced, a third for racial reasons and half for political reasons.
By 1939, over 3000 had been dismissed.
Many leading academics left the country too, including world-famous physicist Albert Einstein.
German Universities had to change their courses so they reflected what the Nazis believed - for
example, Physics courses did not include Einstein's Theory of Relativity because he was Jewish.
All students had to train as a soldier for a month each year, and the top university professors
were hand-picked by the Nazis.
However, Nazis did not regard a university education as particularly important, and fewer
Germans attended university during the Nazi era.
How did the Nazis change the lives of young people?: Hitler Youth Clubs: controlling young
people outside school - correct answers ✔✔In 1935, Hitler gave a speech outlining what the
ideal teenager should be like. He wanted to train up a 'new type' of disciplined and healthy
human beings, 'young men and women who can suffer pain. They must be as fast as a
greyhound, as tough as leather and as hard as steel.'
In 1922, Hitler set up the Hitler Youth Organisation. They met up after school to talk about Nazi
beliefs and ideas.
The boys were taught military skills while the girls learned how to be good wives and mothers.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hitler banned all other youth groups (for example, the
Cub Scouts and Church youth clubs). As a result, lots more young people joined the Hitler Youth.
practice - Germany 1890 - 1945:
Democracy and Dictatorship - GCSE
AQA History Exam With 100% Correct
Answers
Why was the Nazi German school system changed? - correct answers ✔✔Hitler wanted to use
them to brainwash young Germans into loving him and the Nazi party. He believed that children
who learned to idolise him when they were young would continue to admire him for the rest of
their lives.
He realised that in future he may have to call on these people to put up with hardships, to fight
and perhaps even die for him.
To ensure their loyalty, Hitler used every subject in school to put forward Nazi propaganda and
beliefs.
How did the Nazi German school system change? - correct answers ✔✔In History, students
would learn mainly about great German military victories and how badly Germany was treated
at the end of the First World War.
Geography lessons outlined areas in the world that Germany would soon conquer.
Science lessons concentrated on weapon-making and chemical warfare.
Maths lessons asked students to calculate how much money Germany would save if they got rid
of all disabled people.
The amount of time given over to PE trebled in the 1930s and a new subject, Race Studies
('Eugenics'), appeared on the timetable.
Here, students were taught how to improve their race and about the Nazi belief in the
inferiority of black people, Eastern Europeans and, in particular, Jews. This meant that a whole
generation of young people grew up believing that they were better than other races - and this
could help explain why so many ordinary Germans failed to speak out against the way the Nazis
persecuted other races in the years to come.
, Textbooks were rewritten so that Nazi beliefs were taught as accepted facts, and teachers were
made to put across Nazi ideas in their lessons.
All teachers had to join organisation called German Teachers League, and any who refused to
teach the way that the Nazis wanted were sacked.
Students who were identified by their teachers as potential future Nazi leaders were sent to
special academies known as 'Napolas' (National Political Educational Institutions).
The Hitler Youth Organisation set up schools too, called 'Adolf Hitler Schools.'
After intense training, including exercise, the youngsters who attended these places graduated
as 'ideal Nazis' - clever, tough and fiercely loyal to Hitler.
How did Universities change? - correct answers ✔✔Between 1933 and 1934, 15% of university
lecturers or professors were replaced, a third for racial reasons and half for political reasons.
By 1939, over 3000 had been dismissed.
Many leading academics left the country too, including world-famous physicist Albert Einstein.
German Universities had to change their courses so they reflected what the Nazis believed - for
example, Physics courses did not include Einstein's Theory of Relativity because he was Jewish.
All students had to train as a soldier for a month each year, and the top university professors
were hand-picked by the Nazis.
However, Nazis did not regard a university education as particularly important, and fewer
Germans attended university during the Nazi era.
How did the Nazis change the lives of young people?: Hitler Youth Clubs: controlling young
people outside school - correct answers ✔✔In 1935, Hitler gave a speech outlining what the
ideal teenager should be like. He wanted to train up a 'new type' of disciplined and healthy
human beings, 'young men and women who can suffer pain. They must be as fast as a
greyhound, as tough as leather and as hard as steel.'
In 1922, Hitler set up the Hitler Youth Organisation. They met up after school to talk about Nazi
beliefs and ideas.
The boys were taught military skills while the girls learned how to be good wives and mothers.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hitler banned all other youth groups (for example, the
Cub Scouts and Church youth clubs). As a result, lots more young people joined the Hitler Youth.
