Figure 1.--
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Figure 1.-- |
Geography was a school subject especially warped by the NAZIs. It was used to convince German children that they had not only the right, but the duty to seize land not only of neigboring countries with German minorities, but territory hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union so that the existing population could be replaced by German colonists to provide Lebensraum to the German people.
The central theme in NAZI geography classes was the principle of Lebensraum (living room). Children were told that the German people needed land--principally in the east (Poland and the Soviet Union) to live and develop. The children were told that the German people because of their superior Aryan racial makeup as well as historical precedenty had a right to those lands. Not mentioned in this context was the fact that the German birth rate had actually fallen very significantly--much more sharply than that of other important European nations.
A The Nazi Primer goes on to say that the German population has kept its size and boundaries even though foreign people have been trying to win it over. One matter of great concern here was the falling German birth rate. The NAZIs managed to stop the decline, but not significantly increase rates. German youth, especially the girls, were constantly told about the need to produce children. This also caused the NAZIs spearheaded by the SS to implement a secret project to address the problem, the Lenensborn Program, which the children were of course not told about.
Students were taught that the German culture even reached further than the German population into the territory of non-Germans. It goes into the history of the German boundaries and explains that much of this land still rightfully belongs to the Germans. This land should be taken back for the unity under one German Reich [Brennecke, pp. 113-127.]
As part of an exchange agreement Kodi and Crystal have provided us access to their research.
Brennecke, Fritz. The Nazi Primer. Harper & Brothers Publishers: New York 1938.
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