Youth in the Third Reich

After gaining control of the government in the early 1930s, the Nazis radically altered Germany’s educational system. History was re-written along the intolerant lines of Aryan beliefs. Old texts, non-conforming teachers, clergy and many parents were pushed aside. Naïve youth, mesmerized by rhetoric telling them that they, and not their parents, were the future of Germany eagerly followed their Führer.