School for barbarians

Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany's youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national pre eminence and warlike readiness that dominated every department and phase of education. Methods included alienating children from their parents, promoting notions of racial superiority instead of science, and developing a cult of personality centred on Hitler. Erika Mann, a member of the World War II generation of German youth, observed first hand the Third Reich's perversion of a once-proud school system and the systematic poisoning of family life