Nazi maths challenge
Young people were indoctrinated (brainwashed) at every opportunity.
Textbooks were rewritten to get the Nazi message across. Even teachers had
to belong to the German Nazi Teachers’ League (a Nazi trade union) and
were made to put across Nazi ideas in their lessons or face the sack. Try to
solve these questions from a Nazi textbook from the period.
Q1.
The Jews are aliens in Germany. In 1933, there were 66, 000, 000 people
living in Germany. Of this total, 499, 862 were Jews. What is the
percentage of aliens in Germany?
Q2.
A bomber aircraft on take off carries 144 bombs, each weighing ten kilos.
The aircraft bombs a town full of Jews. On take off with all bombs on board
and a fuel tank containing 1000 kilos of fuel, the aircraft weighs about 8
tons. When it returns from its victorious mission, there are still 230 kilos of
fuel left. What is the weight of the aircraft when empty?
Q3.
It costs on average, 4 RM (Reichmarks) a day to keep a cripple or a
mentally ill person in hospital. There are currently 300,000 mentally ill,
lunatics and so on in Germany’s hospitals. How much would the German
government save if they got rid of all these people?
Baldur von Schirach, Hitler Youth
Leader