The Nazis – Page 7 – Old Magazine Articles

Life in Hitlerland
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

It’s a prison or a concentration camp if they catch you tuned in on a forbidden radio program in Hitlerland. And they will take your driver’s license away if even once you are overheard making a careless or joking remark that could be interpreted as ‘out of sympathy with the spirit of the new state’. So even in the apparently private little world bounded by the turning wheels of your own closed car, you must think long and hard like a badgered witness under cross-examination, before you dare open your mouth…

Click here to read what life was like in Mussolini’s Italy in 1938…

Only Über-Blondes Need Apply…(Ken Magazine, 1938)

This article covers a weird Nazi scheme to create the future rulers of the Reich. It is such a bizarre plan and it seemed to us that if it weren’t true, we would have had to rely on Robert Ludlum to dream it up for us:

The idea took root in the fertile brain of Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, also known as the ‘Limping Devil’…’Heroes are both born and trained’, is the Nazi slogan. The future leaders are taken under the government’s wings at the age of ten.’

-and over a period of about twelve years they would have been dragged around from one Harry Potter-style-castle to another being schooled in Nazi dogma and all other assorted Nordic pagan weirdness and then, after having jumped through a number of additional Teutonic hoops, they would be posted in top government positions.
A fascinating look into the queer thinking of the Nazi hierarchy.

A second article about the Adolf Hitler Schools can be read here

CLICK HERE to read about the beautiful Blonde Battalions who spied for the Nazis…

Nazi Indoctrination: the Eighth Grade
(Ken Magazine, 1939)

Five months before the Second World War began an American journalist paid a visit to a German middle school and watched an eighth grade German history pageant; these are his observations:

Sitting in Germany’s schoolrooms are 20 million boys and girls. It is the custom, in democratic countries, to think that Hitler is engaged in pulling wool, or at least some cheap non-import substitute for it, over their eyes every school day.
For two years , for instance, all German boys and girls have been exposed to the following clear-cut lesson:

‘Where e’er I gaze, as German,
My soul with pain o’erflows,
I see the German nation
Girt round and round with foes.’

Click here to read about the Allied effort to re-educate the German boy soldiers of W.W. II.

The Nazi School System
(Click Magazine, 1940)

German school children in Bad Wilsnack as elsewhere look like American kids, study the same arithmetic, discuss the same current events in a regular ‘press period’. But they sneer at democracy and tolerance, deliver serious, bitter impassioned orations in regular Fuhrer style against liberty and freedom…Youth is not youth, but a servant of the state.

More Laws for the Germans
(Literary Digest, 1936)

With no check of legislative body or court, the Nazi triumvirate had decreed that smuggling money or shares out of Germany, and failure to bring into Germany money from goods sold abroad, should be punishable by death.Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals.

Click here to read Hitler’s plan for German youth.

Their Songs of Loathing
(New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

Well, here they are: the songs of the Nazi hit parade – all the ditties you’ve loved tapping your toes to – songs like Storm Troops on the March, or Up, Up, To Strife, Nation to Arms and who can forget that old classic: Wessle Song…

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals. Today shadows have fallen upon the once-proud German universities. The professors have been forced out of the temples of learning or driven into exile or subjected to a subtle pressure which has changed their academic detachment into clumsy conformity with Hitler’s ideals.

Click here to read Hitler’s plan for German youth.

The Adolf Hitler Schools
(Current History Magazine, 1939)

This is a 1939 article about the Adolph Hitler Schools; a (thankfully) short-lived institution that was created to ill-educate the chosen of Hitler’s Germany in order to create a ruling elite.

Their education, in the proper sense of the word, lays emphasis above all on biology, and naturally, on the racial question – on the philosophy of the National Socialist State, on the Common Law, and on the history of Germany and of the Nazi Movement. Foreign languages, literature, and philosophy finds no place.

The Universities Under Hitler
(Literary Digest, 1935)

Click here to read Hitler’s plan for German youth.

Martin Niemöller
(Literary Digest, 1935)

Remembered as the poetic soul who penned the famous Holocaust verse, First they came for…, Martin Niemöller (Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller 1892 – 1984) is characterized in this 1935 article as a remarkably brave theologian who was challenging the Nazi Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller and Dr. Alfred Rosenberg for their assault on the Protestant Churches in Germany:

Now Niemöller is resisting the attack of the German Christian Party, a neopaganistic movement, on the old Protestant faith, in fact. He was not molested when he read to his congregation the manifesto of the Confessional Synod’ Brotherhood Council.All most know that there is a bitter propaganda campaign against the Church under way. We must fight against this and for active, not passive, Christianity.