School for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis

By Erika Mann

Book Overview

Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany's youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national preeminence and warlike readiness that dominated every department and phase of education. Methods included alienating children from their parents, promoting notions of racial superiority instead of science, and developing a cult of personality centered on Hitler.
Erika Mann, a member of the World War II generation of German youth, observed firsthand the Third Reich's perversion of a once-proud school system and the systematic poisoning of family life. This edition of her historic expos features an Introduction by her father, famed author and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486781003
• ISBN13: 9780486781006
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher