Category: Hans Massaquoi

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The Role of Education in Indoctrination in Anna Seghers’ “A Man Becomes a Nazi”

We know the power of education. We know of its power to expand one’s worldview and to teach students how to become members of a collective society. However, we also know about the controlling nature of education, the way it becomes an extension of those in power and used as a means of control, to gain and maintain power over a populace. Nazi Germany … Read More The Role of Education in Indoctrination in Anna Seghers’ “A Man Becomes a Nazi”

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The Internal Psychosis of Nazism in Hans Massaquoi’s “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”

Ian Kershaw’s The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich, traces the image of Hitler in Germany from the failed putsch in 1923 all the way to the regime’s demise in 1945. Kershaw points out that the historical priming for a myth in an all-powerful Führer who would save the nation, dating back to the nineteenth century. While many groups ebbed and flowed … Read More The Internal Psychosis of Nazism in Hans Massaquoi’s “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”