School for Barbarians / Erica Mann / Persimmon

School for Barbarians / Erica Mann / Persimmon

Erica Mann would later define this book as a "political textbook," and this is a definition that is not justified. With the precision and clarity befitting a textbook, but in prose writing, she documents the routine of education in the Third Reich. A School for Barbarians paints a distressing and blunt picture in its directness of how the lives of children in Germany were affected in three areas: the family, the school, and the youth movements.

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