J14P11 MSQn10(b) Why did the Nazis change the school curriculum?

Level 0 No evidence submitted or response does not address the question [0] 

Level 1 General answer lacking specific contextual knowledge [1] e.g. ‘To change what was taught.’ 

Level 2 Identifies AND/OR describes reasons [2–3] 
(One mark for each point) 
e.g. 
‘To introduce control.’ ‘To indoctrinate children.’ 
‘To increase awareness of a view of German history.’ 
‘To increase loyalty to Hitler.’ 
‘To promote the Aryan Race.’ 
‘To prepare boys to be soldiers.’ 
‘To prepare girls to be good wives and mothers.’ 

Level 3 Explains reasons [4–7] 
(One mark for an explanation, additional mark for full explanation.) e.g. 
‘German History was given a central role in the curriculum. It was taught with a Nazi bias. The “stab in the back” at Versailles received great importance and emphasised how the hardships of 1919–1923 were caused by Jews squeezing profits out of honest Germans. As children grew older this increased loyalty to the Fuhrer.’ 

‘Hitler wanted the young boys to be trained so that they would have a career in the army. There was a heavy emphasis on physical fitness, while in Maths there had to be an understanding of military calculations and ballistics, and in Chemistry an understanding of warfare and explosives.’