Third Reich School History Textbook "Volk und Fuehrer"
Third Reich School History Textbook "Volk und Fuehrer" Klasse 6
A German school history textbook titled "Volk und Fuehrer: Deutsche Geschichte fuer Schulen, " edited by Dietrich Klagges and published by Verlag Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main, dated 1941. The volume is marked "Klasse 6," covering "Von der Vorgeschichte bis zum Ende der Staufenzeit, " prepared by Dr. Johannes Silomon and Dr. Walter Franke for use in Oberschulen and Gymnasien. The cover carries gilt Gothic-script titling above a stylized decorative emblem and the class designation.
"Volk und Fuehrer" was part of a series of standardized history textbooks produced for German secondary schools under Nazi-era educational policy, which sought to align curricula with National Socialist ideology and racial doctrine. Dietrich Klagges, a longtime NSDAP official and Minister-President of Braunschweig, was a prominent architect of Nazified school textbooks, having also authored ideologically charged works on German history and biology used to indoctrinate students. This particular volume, covering prehistory through the Hohenstaufen period, reflects the regime's broader effort to reframe German history in nationalist and racial terms for classroom instruction in the early 1940s.
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Third Reich School History Textbook "Volk und Fuehrer" Klasse 6
A German school history textbook titled "Volk und Fuehrer: Deutsche Geschichte fuer Schulen, " edited by Dietrich Klagges and published by Verlag Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main, dated 1941. The volume is marked "Klasse 6," covering "Von der Vorgeschichte bis zum Ende der Staufenzeit, " prepared by Dr. Johannes Silomon and Dr. Walter Franke for use in Oberschulen and Gymnasien. The cover carries gilt Gothic-script titling above a stylized decorative emblem and the class designation.
"Volk und Fuehrer" was part of a series of standardized history textbooks produced for German secondary schools under Nazi-era educational policy, which sought to align curricula with National Socialist ideology and racial doctrine. Dietrich Klagges, a longtime NSDAP official and Minister-President of Braunschweig, was a prominent architect of Nazified school textbooks, having also authored ideologically charged works on German history and biology used to indoctrinate students. This particular volume, covering prehistory through the Hohenstaufen period, reflects the regime's broader effort to reframe German history in nationalist and racial terms for classroom instruction in the early 1940s.
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