Wooden school bench with desk and 3 inkwells used in German classroom
- Date
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use:
1933-1945
- Geography
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use:
school;
Aschach (Germany)
- Classification
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Furnishings and Furniture
- Category
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Furniture
- Object Type
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School benches (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the District of Unterfranken
Wooden school bench with attached desk and three inkwells that was used in a classroom in Aschach, Germany, during the government of the Third Reich, 1933-1945.
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Also in District of Unterfranken collection
The collection consists of school desks and educational charts relating to education and the teaching of racial science in schools in Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.
Date: 1933-1945
Large wall chart with 16 photos of races from Europe and border regions to teach racial hygiene
Object
Large wall panel lithograph featuring 16 headshots of eight racial/ethnic types from Europe and neighboring countries. Nazi racial policy makers idealized the Nordic race and considered other racial groups to be inferior. The chart was produced by The Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) and edited by Dr. Bruno K. Schultz, a race specialist and SS and Nazi Party member, as a teaching tool for racial hygiene instruction. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable.
Large wall chart with 16 photos of non-European races to teach racial hygiene
Object
Large wall panel lithograph featuring 16 headshots of eight racial/ethnic types from outside Europe. Nazi racial policy makers idealized the Nordic race and considered other racial groups to be inferior. The chart was produced by The Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) and edited by Dr. Bruno K. Schultz, a race specialist and SS and Nazi Party member, as a teaching tool for racial hygiene instruction. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially undesirable.
Wooden school bench with desk and 2 two inkwells used in German classroom
Object
Wooden school bench with attached desk and two inkwells that was used in a classroom in Aschach, Germany, during the government of the Third Reich, 1933-1945.
Large wall chart with photos of 4 European races used to teach racial hygiene in Nazi Germany
Object
Racial science chart featuring headshots of the four major ethnic groups of Europe as defined by Nazi racial policy makers. It was produced by The Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) and edited by Dr. Bruno K. Schultz, a race specialist and SS and Nazi Party member, as a teaching tool for racial hygiene instruction. Nazi ideology sought to create a racially pure German nation. All those who did not belong to the Nordic race were to be excluded from the community. Thus citizens had to be educated to recognize the physical characteristics that revealed the racially acceptable and the racially undesirable.
