Abstract
The Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War faced profound problems in finding textbooks that could assist in the work of social reconstruction. The Nazis left Germany a legacy of propagandistic education. History instruction especially had been deliberately distorted to subserve the purposes of the National Socialist party. Education had been controlled by the central government, and the Ministries of Education of the individual states of Germany during the Hitler years functioned mainly to implement the authoritarian decrees of the central Ministry of Education.' German education from 1933 to 1945 was designed to undermine international agreements and create attitudes in pupils inimical to international friendship. History was falsified to support nationalistic dogma. The Hitler regime imposed upon education anti-semitism, the theories of SuperAryanism, required censorship of those facts and materials that were contradictory to the Nazi program and coercively demanded instruction of all that promoted Nazi ideas, national ambitions, and German expansionism.
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