THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF EDUCATION IN GERMANY IN 1933-1945.

Abstract

It was found that the National Socialists paid considerable attention to education and upbringing, setting before these areas specific tasks: the dissemination and support of a new worldview. Within a few years, the face of German education was radically changed: it began to serve a single purpose - to educate fanatics who are not able to critically perceive the reality around them. The conceptual constructions of education and upbringing in the Third Flight did not differ either in the originality of thinking, which gave way to freedom due to ideology, or in the honesty of the pedagogical mind.It was established that education in the Third Reich, according to A. Hitler, should not be reduced to classes in suffocating classrooms: it had to be, according to certain age groups, supplemented by Spartan, political and military training.An analysis of the process of centralization of the education system of the Third Reich. In 1933, government decrees were passed to begin the nationalization of the entire educational system of the country from primary school to universities. The first practical steps in the implementation of this course were the decrees adopted in May 1934 on the establishment of the Imperial Ministry of Science, Education and Public Education, headed by Bernhard Rust, and the replacement of the decentralized system of educational management with a centralized one.It has been established that school textbooks have been reworked in a racist and anti-Semitic spirit. In accordance with ideological requirements, the nature of teaching certain subjects, including geography, has changed. Thus, school curricula ranged from geographical to “geopolitical” in order to suggest to young people that state borders should be constantly changing, depending on the development of Germany’s need for “living space”. There were also new items needed to prepare young people for the Nazi plans. In addition to military affairs from the 1934-1935 academic year, the discipline of “orienteering” was introduced. The network of out-of-school Nazi children’s and youth organizations is characterized: “Pimpfe”, “Jungfolk”, “Hitler Youth”, “Jungmedhen”, “Bund Deutscher Medhen”.It has been proven that during the 12 years of the Third Reich’s existence, the entire education system collapsed catastrophically when it began to be adjusted to the standards of the Nazi dictatorship. The “reforms” carried out by the Nazi leadership in the German education system had catastrophic consequences. In particular, there was a sharp decline in the level of intellectual and professional training of students; the system, which had previously enjoyed universal respect for the quality and scope of knowledge, dignity and validity, became an appendage to the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda; year after year, the level of preparation of students fell sharply at all stages - from primary school to universities.