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Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich (Studies in the History of Education)

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Although I have not yet purchased this book, from what I have read about it on the web, and the quotations referring to this book from scholars, this book is definitely on my want list and my wish list.

Modern history and scholars have examined over and over the "How" of the Holocaust. Many also have discovered the "Why" of the Holocaust. For those who still question the "Why, I recommend that they read Adolf Hitler's Last Will and Testament, written by him before he blew his brains out. In it he said nothing new or outstanding. It is replete with all the garbage that he made a whole nation believe during his "1000 year" reign. And either his minions were too stupid or too scared to challenge the madness or they also had been deceived by thousands of years of Anti Semitic propaganda.

This book pulls apart the writings of the Nazis and especially the dissemination's of Julius Striecher and his editor, Ernst Heimer. Many ask how a nation could be corrupted to hostility and indifference to what happened to their own neighbors. This book shows how the old Anti Semitic pogroms and attitudes of thousands of years were amplified and vigorously taught to the children of Germany during the Hitler regime.

During the Nuremberg War Trials, both the British and the Soviet prosecution leaned heavily on Julius Streicher and his filth. Especislly distressing was the revealed knowledge of the "Childrens Books" produced by the Sturmer Verlag. The two books, "The Poison Mushroom" and "Trust No Fox" were enough to earn Streicher the hangman's noose. Yet at the time none of the Nuremberg prosecution had knowledge of the worst book produced by Streicher's Vellag: "Der Pudelmopsdackelpinscher."


Wegner in his research details what Heimer wrote to the children of Germany in that terrible book. He details how carefully that regime built up their power by exploiting their underling's suspicion and superstition from centuries of Anti Semitic propaganda. It is a fascinating and truly an enlightening study. It took courage to research and write it and it takes courage to read it, then do a self-examination of our own prejudices and bigotries after examining the way that prejudice became a State Industry under the Nazis.