Education in Nazi Germany

Lisa Pine is Senior Lecturer in History at London South Bank University. She is author of Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (Berg, 1997) and Hitler's 'National Community': Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2007), as well as numerous articles on aspects of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

• Acknowledgements Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction 1. The Historical Context 2. Nazi Education Policy 3. The Curriculum and School Textbooks 4. The Nazi Elite Schools 5. The Hitler Youth 6. The League of German Girls Conclusion Bibliography Index

Education in Nazi Germany provides this re-evaluation of childhood and education during the Third Reich and brings together, for the first time for an English reading audience, a complete text on the educational structure and pursuits of the Third Reich...Pine is methodical and extensive in her approach, covering everything from textbooks to classrooms, to propaganda songs to youth groups, all while drawing the reader's attention to the unsubtle changes imposed by the Nazi system on classrooms in the expanding Germany...Pine minutely examines the particulars of each aspect of the curriculum: mathematics, physics, physical education, history, and more...overall Education in Nazi Germany presents a refreshingly new thesis, at least for an English language audience, and fills a known void in ?ird Reich historiography