Carnival XV_Education as means of Indoctrination. The case of Styrian teachers' training, 1938-1945 (original) (raw)

Based on the analysis of archival sources, party literature and an Oral History interview conducted by the author, this paper shows how the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) together with its affiliated organization NSLB (National Socialist Teachers League) tried to entrench the NS ideology not only in the minds of the young students attending the so-called LehrerInnenbildungsanstalten (teachers’ training colleges) and the pedagogical seminar at the University of Graz, but also in those of already practicing teachers. In order to do so, this study focuses on the case of the Austrian province of Styria, where especially teachers had already played an important part in the coming to power of the National Socialists.