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Nazi Policies Towards the Young

How the Nazis tried to control the young between 1933 and 1939 through schools and youth groups: a changed curriculum, Race Studies, the Hitler Youth, and the League of German Maidens.

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The Nazis and the young 🧒

The Nazis wanted to control the young and make them loyal for life. In schools they changed the curriculum, added more PE, and taught Race Studies. Outside school, boys joined the Hitler Youth and girls joined the League of German Maidens. Membership became compulsory by the late 1930s.

Words for youth policy 🔑

Learn these four terms before you judge how far the young were controlled.

Boys and girls 🆚

Nazi training taught boys and girls for very different roles.

Grade 9 thinking 💡

To reach the top grades, assess how far the Nazis won over the young, and remember that some young people, like the Edelweiss Pirates, still resisted.

Match the thing to what it did 🔗

  • the Hitler Youth
  • the League of German Maidens
  • Race Studies
  • PE lessons
  • trained boys for the army with drill and camping
  • trained girls for motherhood and the home
  • taught Nazi ideas about race in school
  • built up the physical fitness of the young

Match the term to its meaning 🧩

  • indoctrination
  • curriculum
  • Aryan
  • compulsory
  • teaching people to accept ideas without question
  • the subjects taught in school
  • the Nazi idea of a pure German
  • something you are forced to do

What were the youth groups for? ❓

What were the Nazi youth groups for?

  • Training the young to serve the Nazi state.
  • Teaching children to question the government.
  • Preparing pupils for careers in business.

Nazi youth groups ✅

Select the TWO Nazi youth groups.

  • The Hitler Youth.
  • The League of German Maidens.
  • The Confessing Church.
  • The League of Nations.

Order the control of the young 🪜

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Summarise youth policy 📝

The Nazis controlled the young through schools and youth groups. In school, _____ Studies taught Nazi ideas about race. Boys joined the Hitler _____, and girls joined the League of German _____. This _____ aimed to make the young loyal, and membership became _____ by the late 1930s.

Race Youth Maidens indoctrination compulsory army church optional teachers games

Count the groups 🔢

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Spot the two Nazi youth groups 🖍️

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For boys or for girls? 🧭

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Assess youth policy ✍️

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