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...staggering problem of a generation of German children systematically taught to be fanatical Nazis is dramatized for the U.S. cinemasses in two new films released this week. Both are based on Education for Death, best-selling (1941) study of Nazi education by Gregor Ziemer, onetime head of the American Colony School in Berlin (TIME...
Hitler's Children, a full-length movie, confects a boy-girl romance as a vehicle for Ziemer's report on Nazi child-training. In Berlin a German-born U.S. schoolgirl meets a U.S.-born German lad who is being indoctrinated in a Nazi school. Several years later he is a Gestapo officer, she a teacher at Berlin's American school. In the course of their tragic, not too credible romance, the camera visits German parents fearful that their offspring will snitch on them, a girls' work camp where rabbit morals are encouraged, a state home...
Schoolmaster Ziemer managed his investigation of Nazi education by such devices as bribing Nazi officials with coffee and persuading Education Minister Bernhard Rust of his professional interest in Nazi educational "efficiency." Ziemer quit Germany for the U.S. at war's outbreak, smuggling out his notes and private Nazi pamphlets by hiding them under copies of Mein Kampf. His book is documented with names, places and direct quotations...
Prime aim of Nazi education, Ziemer found, is to fire Germans with zeal to give up their lives for Adolf Hitler. A German boy takes his first solemn oath to die for the Führer at six, repeats...
First stop in Investigator Ziemer's educational tour was a women's hospital in Berlin. There he saw six doctors hard at work in an operating room-sterilizing women. Swiftly and methodically hospital beds rolled in and out of the operating room. Their occupants were weak women, women who had borne weak children, women considered "enemies of the State." Ziemer also visited a home for feebleminded boys near Leipzig, was led to a small, clean, white-painted hut, known by gossip as a Hitler Kammer. There boys who were still hopelessly clumsy at age ten were...