There is a chapter called 'EDUCATION IN THE THIRD REICH' in the book 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William L Shirer.
Posting a few excerpts from this book. #Thread
"The Nazification of German public schools and colleges was catastrophic for German education."
Posting a few excerpts from this book. #Thread
"The Nazification of German public schools and colleges was catastrophic for German education."
"History was so falsified in the new textbooks. The teaching of the “racial sciences,” exalting the Germans as the master race and the Jews & Slavs as breeders of almost all the evil there was in the world.
Twenty-five new courses in Rassenkunde—racial science— were introduced."
Twenty-five new courses in Rassenkunde—racial science— were introduced."
"The teaching of the natural sciences, in which Germany had been so pre-eminent for generations, deteriorated rapidly.
Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired."
Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired."
"Those who remained were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.
They began to teach what they called German physics, German chemistry and German mathematics. The hallucinations of these Nazi scientists became unbelievable, even to a layman."
They began to teach what they called German physics, German chemistry and German mathematics. The hallucinations of these Nazi scientists became unbelievable, even to a layman."
Professor Rudolphe Tomaschek, director of the Institute of Physics at Dresden wrote,
“Modern Physics is an instrument of Jewry for the destruction of Nordic science. True physics is the creation of the German spirit. All European science is the fruit of Aryan & German thought.”
“Modern Physics is an instrument of Jewry for the destruction of Nordic science. True physics is the creation of the German spirit. All European science is the fruit of Aryan & German thought.”
"There was also Professor Wilhelm Mueller, of the Technical College of Aachen, who in a book entitled Jewry and Science saw a world-wide Jewish plot to pollute science and thereby destroy Aryan civilization. To him, Einstein, with his theory of relativity, was the archvillain."
"After six years of Nazification, the number of university students dropped by more than one half—from 127,920 to 58,325.
The decline in enrollment at the institutes of technology, from which Germany got its scientists and engineers, was even greater— from 20,474 to 9,554."
The decline in enrollment at the institutes of technology, from which Germany got its scientists and engineers, was even greater— from 20,474 to 9,554."
After the war in 1945, Prof Julius Ebbinghaus said,
“The German universities failed, while there was still time, to oppose publicly with all their power the destruction of knowledge.
They failed to keep the beacon of freedom and right burning during the night of tyranny.” #END
“The German universities failed, while there was still time, to oppose publicly with all their power the destruction of knowledge.
They failed to keep the beacon of freedom and right burning during the night of tyranny.” #END
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