What can Walt Disney tell us about Nazi Policy towards young people? Learning objectives: To identify a range of methods used by the Nazis to indoctrinate young people To be able to explain the role of both school education and youth groups To be able to make a judgement about the overall effectiveness of both school education and youth groups in securing young people as Nazi supporters.

What can Walt Disney tell us about Nazi Policy towards young people?

Task 1: You have been given an A3 piece of paper which is split in two. You need to annotate the images to reflect the information on pp.74-79. It is split into categories of Education and Youth Movement You have 15 minutes

Task 2 Under the subheading ‘Youth Policies in WW2’ write… “After 1943, as the war turned against him, Hitler called on the Hitler Youth members to carry out duties such as collecting scrap metal and clothes for the troops, and charity donations for war widows and those made homeless by the bombing. Later, thousands of recruits, some as young as 15 joined up to fight. By the end, in 1945, boys as young as 12 were given weapons and ordered to fight, most notable in Berlin.”

Task 3 Under the subheading ‘Were policies towards young people successful?’ write a BALANCED conclusion to answer this question.