
German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
- 359 pages
- English
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German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
About this book
In this innovative analysis of German elementary education, Katharine Kennedy uses textbooks, curricula, and pedagogical texts to trace continuities and changes in the lessons taught in the elementary schools of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany. Children in all three periods were exposed to recurring texts that reinforced attachment to God, region, and fatherland. However, they also encountered evolving symbols of the nation and shifting ideas about the identity of Germany and the German people. By blending lessons on Hitler, race, and heredity with traditional narratives, Nazi education conveyed its ideology under the cloak of virtue, patriotism, and normality. It provides a compelling example of how a dictatorship manipulates religion and tradition to legitimize a brutal, lawless, and racist regime.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I — Schooling in Wilhelmine Germany
- Part II — Schooling in the Weimar Republic
- Part III — Schooling under the Nazi Dictatorship
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index