What history did the nazis teach?

[john2]

My understanding is that some of the nazis believed in a mystical version of history. That the ancient aryans came from an island in the north called Thule. On Thule they had built a great civilization but then some kind of disaster happened and the island was destroyed. The aryans were scattered all over the world and taught inferior races civilization. All the ancient monuments of the past were built with the supervision of the ancient aryans. Unfortunately they committed the greatest crime one can do - they mixed with the inferior races. Over time they lost their ability to create civilization whatever that means. Only a few pure aryans were left and they made it to present day Germany. So was any of this taught in German schools? Himmler apparently believed this and sent teams around the world especially to India looking for remnants of the ancient aryans.

[gebhk]

Hi John 2

Can't answer your question, sorry, but can't resist a small tangent. I don't think this version of history is mystical. I've always thought It's just a hijacking and transposition of the very factual Minoan eruption that devastated the Island of Thera (Santorini) around 1600 BC and caused significant displacement of civilisations and communities in the Mediterranean area but also likely impacted worldwide. This displacement and its role in creating new human interractions, some have argued, was a profoundly significant event in the development of human cosciousness - an idea which seems at least a kissing cousin to the ideas about scattered superior 'Aryans' teaching others 'civilisation'.

[Sheldrake]

Top hit on Google . Education in Nazi Germany

Hitler immediately made changes to the school curriculum. Education in "racial awareness" began at school and children were constantly reminded of their racial duties to the "national community". Biology, along with political education, became compulsory. Children learnt about "worthy" and "unworthy" races, about breeding and hereditary disease. "They measured their heads with tape measures, checked the colour of their eyes and texture of their hair against charts of Aryan or Nordic types, and constructed their own family trees to establish their biological, not historical, ancestry.... They also expanded on the racial inferiority of the Jews". (4)

As Louis L. Snyder has pointed out: "There were to be two basic educational ideas in his ideal state. First, there must be burnt into the heart and brains of youth the sense of race. Second, German youth must be made ready for war, educated for victory or death. The ultimate purpose of education was to fashion citizens conscious of the glory of country and filled with fanatical devotion to the national cause." (5) https://spartacus-educational.com/GEReducation.htm

BBC HIstory revision here. WW2 and the Nazis are in the British history curriculum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z ... revision/2
What do they teach about the Nazis in North Carolina?

[xnotokay4w]

According to the Nazis, history, a matter of race dialectics, would come to an end with the final and total victory of the Reich and the disappearance of the racial enemy. This opened a vast, free, and unimpeded space for the Nazi project: the far territories of the East and eternal time

[gebhk]

In his Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism,David Luhrssen implies that Rosenberg's Der Mythus des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (The Myth of the 20th Century) which, inter-alia, espouses this myth, was a compulsory part of the Nazi school curriculum, albeit I have been unable to confirm this directly.

[possessnappy]

My understanding is that some of the nazis believed in a mystical version of history. That the ancient aryans came from an island in the north called Thule. On Thule they had built a great civilization but then some kind of disaster happened and the island was destroyed. The aryans were scattered all over the world and taught inferior races civilization. All the ancient monuments of the past were built with the supervision of the ancient aryanssoccer random. Unfortunately they committed the greatest crime one can do - they mixed with the inferior races. Over time they lost their ability to create civilization whatever that means. Only a few pure aryans were left and they made it to present day Germany. So was any of this taught in German schools? Himmler apparently believed this and sent teams around the world especially to India looking for remnants of the ancient aryans.

Indeed, each person has a faith just as we can follow many different religions. Each formation of nations will have its own story. The fact that their development history can be seen that this could also be word of mouth development

[NancyCastro]

The concept of a mythical Aryan race originated in the late 19th century and was later adopted and distorted by the Nazis to fit their racist ideology