Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While thousands of young Americans prepared to receive their first Easter Communion, 1,100,000 German youths, just turned 14, had a first Nazi "communion" two weeks before Easter-complete with organ music, readings from Mein Kampf, sermons based on the Führer's writing. Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann spoke over the radio for the Berlin ceremony, cited Hitler as a name to worship and an example for all young people to follow...
...German, he claims-Reich representative of the Italian silk firm of Seta Inc. One day the Gestapo rushed a non-Aryan friend of his into a concentration camp, and S. K. made history by getting him out. Later he got others out, with the help of a sympathetic Gestapo official and some forged steamship tickets. Then the Gestapo asked S. K. himself to drop in one afternoon...
Stressing physical fitness for military service, and supreme devotion to the state, the Nazis have imbued the youth of the Reich with a spirit of self-sacrifice that is amazing, Kruse asserted. "Beginning with grammar school, young men absorb a steady stream of Nazi doctrines both in school and in the Hitler youth movements that have become compulsory...
Other objectives of the German youth training are the elimination of the family as a potent social unit, and the eradication of anything but military and political schooling as totally unnecessary for young Germans, the instructor claimed. "Young men under the third Reich have little time at home, since marching and political activities force them to spend a great majority of free time away from their homes." In this way, the role of the family is diminishing, just as the Nazi leaders wish it to he added...
...Despite these obvious handicaps, German education is not doomed," Kruse maintained. "The foundation for future improvement lies in the outstanding work accomplished by Reich scientists and engineers, even under rigid Nazi control. The work of these men can be used to revive the tradition of education which made German schools the model for the world before 1933, he stated...