On paper - Europeans, from the average voter to the top political leaders, are vastly more educated than they were in the 1930's. Or 1910's. Or 1810's. Or ...
In practice - one wonders whether modern "education" is of any real-world use. The illiterate peasant soldiers of the 1520's knew that to keep re-loading their muskets, they needed a steady supply of musket balls, and of wadding, and of gunpowder, and so on.
The country that the Nazis took over was the most educated, most literate country in the world. They had the Nobel prize winners, the prestigious universities, and in many fields of study if you didn't live in Germany, you weren't educated unless you could read German.
Yes...though my impression is that the top Nazis themselves tended to rather less educated. They clearly understood how to produce guns, bombs, ammunition, land mines, poison gas, etc. at scale.
(It's also my impression that the Nazis mostly treated the highly-educated and cultured as trophies and status symbols - often good for bragging about or being seen around...but not fit to make important decisions, nor to be appointed to high office.)
In practice - one wonders whether modern "education" is of any real-world use. The illiterate peasant soldiers of the 1520's knew that to keep re-loading their muskets, they needed a steady supply of musket balls, and of wadding, and of gunpowder, and so on.