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Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi
Published in Hardcover by Octagon Books (1972)
Author: Gregor Athalwin, Ziemer
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A frightening look into the Nazi education system.
This is an American journalist's account of his 'tour' of the Nazi eductaion system. He visits schools, the Nazi party home for Aryan mothers, and various youth camps. The reading, especially that of the mother's homes, is horrifying...but an eye-opener to how Hitler's system operated. What is truly firghtening is that just a few years of rabid indoctrination turned a civilised people into those described in the book..it is unreal. The children know nothing but that Hitler is literally god and their main purpose in life is to sacrifice their life for this man. But if you can deal with the horror of this book it is truly a good work to read to understand what happened to Germany in the Nazi years.

A Horribly, Frightening Read
This chilling true account was written by an a man in charge of the American school in Germany who, by a series of miraculous means, is able to get the correct papers in order to visit the schools and other places where the Nazi ideology was starting at the earliest of ages. The read is sometimes quite shocking and disturbing, especially when it involves the young children's attitudes towards "non-Aryans" and the pregnant women's house (as someone else stated).
An interesting note about this book is that it was published in 1941, well before the Final Solution was put into full action. It's ironic that this author used the correct title for the book "Education for Death," since the young boys and girls were ultimately learning to kill. Another area of interest with the publication date is the question why wasn't this book more widely known and read when such events were actually occurring? This author wrote the book for the public to know what was happening, yet it fell upon deaf ears.

Grab this one if you can find it!
Out of print, but definitely worth locating and reading. Fascinating, chilling first hand account of the powers of persuasion and propaganda employed by the Third Reich over the youth culture of wartime Germany. In the vein of "Sacred Blood," "In Pure Blood" and "Motherhood in the Fatherland," this work is especially noteworthy given the hostile climate between races that exists in today's political arena. Terrific resource and interesting reading.


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