Establishing Nazi ideology

Establishing Nazi ideology

Steps taken by the Nazis to teach Nazi ideology to German children

1. Hitler established total control over the education system and sought to indoctrinate Children with Nazi ideology.
2. To purify the educational system, Jewish teachers were expelled likewise Jewish children were segregated and not allowed to sit or play with Germans.
3. Ideological training was provided to the children, and books were rewritten to popularize Nazi thinking and beliefs like racial science was introduced.
4. Children were taught to be loyal and submissive to the State under Hitler.
5. A spirit of violence, aggression, and competition was instilled in the children through sports, children were encouraged to take up boxing which would make them tough.

Nazi state seek to establish total control over its people

1. They used different propaganda through posters or films to glorify their behaviour.
2. Media was carefully used to win support for the regime and popularise it.
3. Nazism worked on the minds of the people, tapped their emotions, and turned their hatred and anger against those marked as ‘undesirable’.
4. Special surveillance and security forces to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted, were created.
5. The police forces had the power to rule with impunity.
6. Genocide also created an atmosphere of fear and repression which helped them to establish total control over its people.

By the end of 1940, Hitler was at the Pinnacle of his Power

1. Destruction of Democracy:
   1. Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany on 30th January 1933.
   2. He indefinitely suspended civic rights like freedom of speech, press, and assembly.
   3. Then he turned his attention to concentration camps set up for communists.
2. Enabling Act:
   1. This Act established a dictatorship in Germany.
   2. It gave Hitler all the powers to establish his rule. He banned all other political parties and trade unions.
3. Security Forces:
   1. Special security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted.
   2. People could now be detained in Gestapo torture chambers, sent to concentration camps, or arrested without any legal procedures.
4. Foreign Policy:
   1. Hitler first of all pulled his country out of the League of Nations.
   2. He reoccupied the Rhineland area and integrated his country.
   3. Then he occupied Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and later gobbled up the whole country