This generation would be completely well-behaved in their eyes, yet in anyone else's would be seen as suppressed.
It becomes ironic when the children of Dr. Schreber are hospitalized or commit suicide (352). It seems to prove how distorted and traumatic his ideas and practices were towards childrearing. If his encouraged ideas were in any way good for a child, I highly doubt one of his children would have been hospitalized for schizophrenia and the other would have committed suicide. Something was obviously wrong with his beliefs. Suppressing a young boy's feelings and emotions is unhealthy, and also goes against human nature.
The intolerance for a man's emotion as mentioned about Himmler's upbringing probably stemmed back to the German prejudice towards homosexuality. Children at the time had their hands tied down to their beds at night to prevent masturbation, which was believed to be closely related to homosexuality. That is also why the homosexuals taken to concentration camps during the Holocaust had to sleep with their hands outside the blankets. The German society was very strict with expressing sexuality, especially homosexuality, .
because of its close connection with feminism. A hint of man's empathy was quickly covered up in strict fear of being considered homosexual, one of the greatest sins at the time.
To commit another of these horrible sins was to vary in any other way from the accepted model of a German citizen. At the time, the Germans were trying to create the master race, one of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants with blonde hair and blue eyes; a perfect human being who showed no compassion towards others" pain. By trying to breed this perfect society, the Germans repressed their younger generation. When this younger generation grew up, they became a legion of cold-hearted men who were responsible for the gassing of millions of people. The reason they were able to make such severe decisions like that was because of the fact that they were raised thinking that those things were acceptable, if the end result helped to create the perfect race.
