Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Emergence of Pseudoscience
(i.e. Eugenics)
Rewriting of History
Destruction of Literature
NAZI BOOK BURNINGS
Why?
A way of venting anger
Symbolic transition of cultural values:
Intellectualism to radical emotionalism
Unity through ritual
Intimidates intellectual
community
State Policy
May 10, 1933
Nazi Party declares that any book
which acts subversively on our future
or strikes at the root of German thought,
the German home and the driving forces
of our people... is to be burned.
Who would be the target of such a
policy and why?
The Burning Spectacle
Students marched through the streets
rampaging libraries, synagogues, and even
private homes to loot books
Some Authors of Books Burned
on 5/10/33
Albert Einstein Hugo Preuss
Havelock Ellis Marcel Proust
Lion Feuchtwanger Walter Rathenau
Sigmund Freud Erich Maria
Andr Gide Remarque
Franz Kafka Margaret Sanger
Erich Kstner Arthur Schnitzler
Helen Keller Upton Sinclair
Alfred Kerr Jakob Wasserman
Jack London H. G. Wells
Heinrich Mann Stefan Zweig
Thomas Mann Emile Zola
Karl Marx
EDUCATION IN
THE THIRD REICH
Nazi Education
The Curriculum
Racial biology and
eugenics
Celebratory German
history
Discipline, duty,
obedience, courage
Physical training
Body over mind The Jewish Nose is Wide
at the End and Looks like
No concern for the the Number Six
spirit of academics
The Nazi Classroom
Task of the Educator
Strengthen the soul and spirit of youth
Instill nationalism in younger generation
Root out values of
Liberal individualism
Rationalism
Intellectualism
Trained children
to be good soldiers
to benefit the state
Adolf Hitler on Education
"Universal education is the most
corroding and disintegrating poison
that liberalism has ever invented
-Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant
application of propaganda, people
can be made to see paradise as
hell, and also the other way round
Adolf Hitler
The Hitler Youth
Clip From Triumph of the Will