The Nazi worldview

According to this there was no equality between people. In this view blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top while the Jews were located at the lowest rung. According to Nazis only the strongest race would survive and the weak ones would perish. The Aryan race was the finest and it has to retain its purity, become stronger and dominate the world. According to Nuremberg Law of citizenship of September 1935, only the German blood would be given the citizenship and other privileges. Any relation along with marriages between Jews and Germans were forbidden. Jews were forbidden to fly the national flag; their businesses were boycotted and were expelled from government services. They were forced to sell their property and were even confiscated.

Youth in Nazi Germany

Hitler felt that a strong Nazi society could be established only by teaching children Nazi ideology. This required a complete control over the child. Good German children were subjugated to a process of Nazi schooling, a prolonged period of ideological training. School textbooks were rewritten. Racial science was introduced to justify Nazi idea of race. Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler. Even the sports were to nurture a spirit of violence and aggression among the children. Hitler believed that boxing could make children iron hearted, strong and masculine. 10 year old had to enter ‘Jungvolk’ and at 14 all boy had to join ‘Nazi youth’ where they were trained in the ‘spirit of National Socialism’. In these organizations they learnt to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy and hate Jews, Communists, Gypsies and all those categorised as ‘undesirable’. Usually at the age of 18 years they had to join Labour Service and had to serve in the armed forces and enter one of the Nazi organization.

The Nazi cult of motherhood:-

According to Nazis’ ideology women were radically different and inferior to man. Girls were told that they had to become good mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryan children. Girls had to maintain the purity of race, distance themselves from Jews, look after home and teach their children Nazi values. According to Hitler the mother is the most important citizen of the state. But not all mothers were treated equally in Nazi German. Women who bore racially undesirable children were punished and those who produce racially desired children were awarded. All women who deviated from the prescribed code of conduct were publically condemned and severely punished.

Ques 1- What was the Hitler’s Nazi world view?

Answer. According to this view all societies were not one relation. Only the blond blue-eyed German Aryans came at the top and the Jews at the bottom. Hitler believed that the Aryans are the most superior in the world and they have the right to survive Hitler believed that the race which is the most powerful will survive.

Ques 2- Which steps were taken by the Hitler to transfer Nazi ideology in the next generations?

Answer. Hitler took the following steps to bring Nazi thinking to the next generation-

1. The school curriculum and textbooks were rewritten.

2. A new course called race science was also created to justify the Nazi ideas propagated about the race.

3. Children were taught to be loyal and obedient and to idolize Hitler and to hate Jews.

4. A sense of violence and aggression was created in children through sports, behind this Hitler believed that the child could become steely-hearted and strong and masculine by boxing and other sports.

5. The spirit of Nazi National Socialism was instilled in German children as young as 10 years old by joining organizations called Youngfolk and 14 years old boys in the Hitler Youth.

6. At the age of 18, children had to join the labor service and after that they were required to take membership of any Nazi organization.

Ques 3- According to Hitler what were the responsibilities of women?

Answer. According to Hitler, women had the following responsibilities

1. Hitler believed that women were different and inferior to men and women could not be equal to men.

2. Hitler believed that it was his responsibility to make girls a good mother and to give birth to children of pure Aryan blood and to bring them up.

3. According to Hitler, women were given the responsibility to maintain the purity of the race, to stay away from the Jews, to take care of the household and to teach the Nazi values ​​to the children.

4. According to Hitler, mother's land has an important role in the state, but all mothers were not treated equally, only those mothers were the partners of respect who gave birth to children of Aryan race.

Ques 4- How schools can contribute in making a good society?

Answer. Schools have a very important contribution in building a good society and we can understand this contribution through the following points

1. It is through school that good citizens are made in the country.

2. Moral values ​​and a sense of patriotism and philanthropy are inculcated in the students through schools.

3. Schools play a very important role in building a good society because it is through schools that the sense of sociality is developed in the students.

4. It is through school that capable and loyal citizens of the country can be made.

5. School is absolutely essential for building a healthy and developed society.

Ques 5- ‘Women have a very important place in the society.’ Justify this statement by citing examples from your life.

Answer. The place of women in the society is very important and this statement is completely true. The contribution of women can be understood through a personal example from our life which is as follows

1. Our first teacher in the family is our mother and then our sisters who make us good citizens and both of them have contributed in our life.

2. We had many female teachers in the school who have helped us a lot in making us a good citizen and a good person.

3. We have also learned many good things from the women around us which are used in our daily life.

4. Personally, in our society, we have learned a lot from women who have attained high positions after struggling a lot.