History Essay - Tom Hromin Sturm - XV. Gimnazija, I. B. School Teenager Life in the Nazi Regime ( 1933-1939 ) vs Teenager Life Today ! Regarding the life of teenagers in the nazi regime, it is most de? nitely a life that a person does not want to live.
Hitler having gained power had had to control the minds and bodies of teenagers because the last thing he needed was an uprising of people who understood what was going on.Grown ups can only be mislead, but children can be taught to think and act differently, in this case according to Hitler needs, wants and demands. Such minds need to be cleared of standard thinking and the need to listen to, protect and serve Hitler needs to be implanted in them. How a life of a standard teen living in Nazi Germany at the time looked like was quite horri? c by today? s standards. They had special schools in which only the best and strongest of the children could get into. Being in these Nazi schools was quite the privilege and not being in them was a public disgrace.
In these schools they taught the children to blindly follow Hitler.They taught them battle tactics, ghting, they had plentiful physical training and because of this a great army could have of been formed and not many people could have of questioned Hitler? s commands because they have been mislead throughout their education. Some people say that babies were ? rst taught to say Heil Hitler and then mama and papa. From this we can clearly see that this regime was purely created for mass control in a very subtile way.
Such a life is similar as to living under someone? s mind control. The teenagers were soldiers, they were all followers and Hitler as it was, was on top of the pyramid. The boys and the girls training and education highly differed. Girls were taught to be housewives, to serve their husbands and to raise their children, to give them full cooperation etc. . The schools for boys and for girls weren? t the same and boys had their separate schools in which they were basically taught warfare and warfare techniques.
The girls were taught how to be housewives so therefore the teenagers had nothing more to think or think about other than what they were taught to do. The life of a standard teenager today is quite different obviously. Due to women having gained equal rights as men, girls and boys go to school together, they are allowed to have equally good education and same opportunities. No one is taught to be inferior to anyone.
The teenagers are not taught to follow someone, but to live their lives accordingly to the time they live in. Democracy is the form of governing in most countries today.A standard teenagers is not brainwashed like they were in Nazi Germany, but are taught to think for themselves, to have their own thoughts, ideas and opinions about everything. The change is abrupt and the two regimes of education are nearly incomparable. The mere thought of having to pass school according to someone who is soully in charge of the entire country, to see that that person is forming a large military power and using you, your siblings and other teenagers as mere ponds for his universal game of chess and not being able to do absolutely anything about it is terrible.The life of teenagers therefore differs a great deal in the Nazi regime and today.
To sum up, in the Nazi regime, they were brainwashed, trained to be soldiers, educated to be blind to everything going on around them, all the laws set for the education of teenagers, all the laws of discrimination that were made were presented in such a way that a person who has attended this education system could not possibly comprehend the bigger picture, what exactly is going on around them.Today however teenagers are offered the chance of a fair education, they are taught to think for themselves and act for themselves, there aren? t any limitations from a higher power. Human rights in the end prevailed and the education system today is just as it was supposed to be back then.
