School for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0486781003 ISBN13: 9780486781006 Release Date: April 2014 Publisher: Dover Publications Length: 160 Pages Weight: 0.35 lbs. Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.1" Age Range: 12 years and up Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany's youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national preeminence and warlike readiness that dominated every department and phase of education. Methods included alienating children from their parents, promoting notions of racial superiority instead of science, and developing a cult of personality centered on Hitler. Erika Mann, a member of the World War II generation of German youth, observed firsthand the Third Reich's perversion of a once-proud school system and the systematic poisoning of family life. This edition of her historic expos