Argumentative Essay: Hitler's Youth Program

“The future of the German nation depends on its youth and the German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties”

The Holocaust is debatably the most terrible event and the largest genocide in human history. During World War II when Hitler was leader of Germany Six million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis, over 1 million were children. Most deaths were in concentration camps where they were gassed, worked to death or died of decease. It wasn’t just Jews that were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, Hitler also sent Millions of other people that he didn 't like. This included Polish people, Catholics, Serbs, and disabled people. As many as 17 million innocent lives were believed to have been lost.

The Hitler Youth, also known as the Hitlerjugend, was designed specifically for young Germans who wanted to fulfill their duties to the Fatherland and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Founded in 1926, this helped Hitler gain support from children throughout the entire country. Children as young as 6, with good records could join and become apprentices. By 1933, there were 100,000 members of the Hitler Youth and by 1940, 90% of all German children were members of the organization. Children were encouraged directly, mostly through school teachers. Parent permission was not necessary, making it easier for children to join. There were different sections of the Hitler Youth, based on age. It also had several divisions much like a real army. The boys were treated much like real soldiers at Hitler Youth training camps. They practiced military marching daily, strengthened their bodies, and had their hair shaved in military

During the time of Adolf Hitler, many young German Kids were forced to join the Hitler Youth. Teachers pressured the German students into joining the Hitler Youth program, In “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow,” author Susan Campbell Bartolletti discussed the ways Adolf Hitler used education to further Nazi ideals. To make young Germans into good Nazis, Hitler changed the textbooks and the curriculum, so that it only taught Nazi approved ideas. Hitler also made the German students pledge to him every single day, by saying, “Heil Hitler” to a poster of him and a Nazi flag. Hitler and the Nazis also forced teachers to teach the Nazi ideas to make sure that every German student would grow up to be a good Nazi.

Hitler believed that the future of Nazi Germany was the children. He set up a program to educate the children the way he wanted. The Hitler Youth had teaching schemes to fill the youth's minds with Nazi Germany. Before Hitler came into power, the kids could avoid doing things for Hitler Youth if they

“Young boys were organized into the Deutches Jungvolk (German Young People, informally called Pimpfe), older boys into the Hitlerjugend (HJ). The Deutches Jungvolk could have boys from the ages of 10-14 and the Hitlerjugend could have boys from the ages of 14-18. When World War II started, more than ninety percent of German youth were members of these organizations. Ninety percent is a huge percentage. That means that almost every teenage German, Gentile was a member of some kind of Nazi Youth Organization. Many of these youth organization actually over rid the parental control on the children. Many were told that the individual or the family was less important than the state. If children had disloyal parents, they were encouraged to report them. When the boys weren’t in school or at home with their parents, they were with their youth organization learning military maneuvers and different chants. An example of the one the chants that the Hitler Youth used to march around chanting are: “Comrades, we march to the field, red today, tomorrow dead, Comrades it must be that way.” If the boys made any achievement in the Hitler Youth, credit in school would be given to the student. The teacher must respect the authority of the youth leaders, regardless of their age or attitude towards them. Blind obedience seems to be a common theme. Children are taught these ideologies without knowing the true real reason. Teachers are forced to believe and follow these ideologies if they wish to

Action. Fun. Adventure. These were the things promised to children as young as ten, who were lured by Hitler Youth and BDM organizations. By training the children rigorously and implementing Nazi Germany’s core beliefs in them, Hitler formed future Nazi citizens that would be willing to sacrifice their lives for him and the Third Reich. In 1920, Hitler approved the founding of Hitler Youth which modeled a previous youth group who distinguished themselves through clothing and such, wanting to reconnect Germans with the land ( Lisciotto). The brainwashing of Germany’s children through the use of Hitler Youth programs was unethical: it was created to mold children into perfect Nazi citizens, implementing a deep sense of racial superiority taught by teachers: infusing deep hatred for anything the Nazis considered a threat to Germany, and due to Hitler Youth teachings of reporting adults who were not law-abiding citizens, it led to children reporting their parents out of duty to the Third Reich.

The Hitler Youth was for boys ages 14 to 18. The organisation was similar to scouts and would do things such as learning about survive skills and they would go on camps. The Hitler Youth was used to turn train children to become part of the Strom Regiment. The Storm Regiment was a wing of the Nazi Party. There was a large focus on physical training to get the youth members ready to be soldiers. To help this the Hitler Youth organised a lot of sport activates for youth all around Germany. The Hitler Youth would also teach their members to use guns and other basic military practices. The Hitler Youth also had a very strong belief of racism. The Nazi’s believed they were a superior race, this belief was taught to the Hitler Youth. The members of the youth were taught to be racist. Nazi’s also hated Christianity, and the perfect tool to stop it was the Hitler Youth. The youth members of the youth would infiltrate Church groups and spy on the church goers. This would usually end in multiple arrests for religious practices.

First of all, young children, especially Jewish children, should learn about the unpleasant events that occurred in the past. “The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.” says Tim Holden, a former U.S. Representative. Children need to know that what the Nazi’s did was wrong and disturbing, and teaching students about this subject will teach to not repeat the past, to not reiterate such a horrible occurrence.

Most everyone reflects on and thinks of the Holocaust as a horrifying, heartless slaughter of the Jews. The Holocaust can be a very hard, depressing issue to discuss but it is a major part of history and cannot be ignored. The Holocaust affected countless numbers of people in the past and it continues to affect many to this day. The Jewish population was the population that most affected the most through the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had way too much power and he used that position of excessive power to nearly destroy the Jews.

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the Holocaust was the leading events to the final imprisonment and extermination. These events allowed the German people to dehumanize Jews and subversives too such a point that they thought of them as nothing more than animals. This was a complete degradation of rights and respect. It is not easy to sum these events up as it follows a long timeline, however, there are a few critical events I will mention. At the end of WWI Germany was fully blamed and owed a lot of money in reparation. This eventually bankrupted Germany and caused a great amount of anger and hate to build. On Jan 30th, 1933 Hitler is appointed as chancellor of Germany and all hell begins to break loose (“Holocaust Timeline”). The Jewish people have many rights stripped away such as land

The Holocaust was a horrific event in our history and should be studied today to insure that these events never happen again. There are several factors and parts of the Holocaust that are cruel and demeaning you would be able to study. Dehumanization of the Jews during the Holocaust pushed them to their absolute limit of starvation, disease, and cruelty, which showed the inhumane acts people are capable of. Also, bringing the Jews back a step in evolution, the cruelty and harsh conditions inflicted upon the Jews reversed their evolvement and civilized behavior. Overall, the Holocaust is a significant time in our history that should be studied and not forgotten.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history which ended many innocent Jewish lives. Six million Jews plus many more were completely wiped out due to the effects of the Holocaust. It is still unforgivable for the things the Nazi party did and is still a very questionable subject on how they were able to accomplish such devastation. To be able to organize the removal of an entire population of people based on their religion not only takes high intelligence, but most of all takes a very twisted and demented outlook on life. Learning about the holocaust and the people involved is very important, as well as how it has affected our world today. There are many very fascinating things about the holocaust but three

From the time Adolf Hitler came into office in 1933, up to the time when Germany surrendered to the Allied forces and Hitler committed suicide in 1945; the future for Germany became strongly invested in the hands of the younger generations. The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization formed in 1926. It gave kids excitement, adventure and new heroes to idolize. Hitler admired young kids drive, energy and strong love for Germany. He recognized these qualities and made it part of his plan to control the future world but the real question is why did Adolf Hitler pick children for his future? The education and the lack of schooling in independent thinking that instilled the ideology that brainwashed the Hitler- Jugend and eventually led

The Success of Nazi Policies Toward Education and Youth Hitler and the Nazi party had a range of policies to control education and the German youth. This was mainly to ensure loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi party. Some believed in these policies and other did not but it was fear and glory and the fear of social inadequacy that made most comply. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to control the education system and youth by controlling the teachers, pupils and the curriculum.