Hitler's Influence On Youth

Hitler managed to captivate and motivate an entire country by using propaganda, the youth, and the power, to make the entire population of germans hate Jews. Hitler succeeded indoctrination of the German people, in many ways: through the Hitler Youth, education, and propaganda. The main form of indoctrination was the Hitler Youth. Hitler was believed that children could be totally indoctrinated in their education.

In the story Teens againsts Hitler By Lauren Tarshis is about a boy named Ben Kamm who survived and experienced the harsh fel events of the Holocaust, and how he joined the partisans and fought back and saved many Jews from the horrifying events of the Holocaust.In the story Teens against Hitler By Lauren Tarshis is about a boy named Ben Kamm, who survived and experienced the harsh fel events of the Holocaust, and how he joined the partisans and fought back and saved many Jews from the horrifying events of the Holocaust.

Adolf Hitler often proclaimed, “Whoever has the youth has the future.” This future would entail the most destructive war in history and the systematic murder of millions of people. This research will study how the Hitler Youth, a youth organization affiliated with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi Party), affected the German population, particularly its members, from 1922 to 1945. Specifically, this research will examine how formal and informal Hitler Youth training influenced its experiencers’ decisions to acquiesce to and perpetrate the Holocaust. This research about the Hitler Youth’s effects on people’s behavior during the Holocaust will analyze the role of Nazism versus preexisting societal trends in cultivating genocidal mindset.

Imagine not being old enough to vote, but being old enough to be separated from your family, forced to fight in the war, and forced to hate a race you aren’t old enough to even understand. That’s exactly what the children of Germany faced. The children of Germany were wrongly stripped of their childhood by being forced to fight in wars and take on adult roles; they should have been protected, instead, they became part of the victimization of the Jews and others.

A fifth reason that would branch off of that would be giving kids reason to trust that leader and his ideas. Again, many children speak with their parents or guardians about topics such as believing in the government and other ideas having to do with that, and often kids can get ideas that their leader should be overthrown or killed because they trust the adult telling them this. If the leader took control of that by making kids live away from these adults, they would basically be destroying anything a child could do when he grows up such as overthrow or kill this leader. Another selfish reason, but again very likely.

Adolf Hitler was an intelligent man who greatly understood the minds of the German people. The constant exploration of the German people assisted him in controlling and influencing their cultural, social and everyday lives to conform to the Nazi state. The power and intelligence of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1939 would forever change Germany and its way of life.

First, children are recruited into government armies or any private organization because they are acquiescent to people who tend to be older than them.

Over the last ten years, at least over two million children are forcibly serving in the military, with them only being 10 years old or younger. Another conflict is that child soldiers are being isolated in many parts of africa, and are being used by armed groups as an ongoing conflicts like south asia, asia, and the middle east. Some governments have also recruited children under the age of 18 into their armed forces. One of their biggest challenges is to have freedom in their own hands without having to break the law.

In order for Adolf Hitler to become successful, he knew that he had to spread Nazism to the far corners of the world. He accomplished this to some extent by using propaganda. “Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels” (“Nazi Propaganda”). Goebbels was the master propagandist and orator to whom Hitler gave the responsibility of spreading the favorable image of the Nazi regime. The Nazis took control of all means of entertainment in order to spread their beliefs. “The ministry’s aim was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press” (“Nazi Propaganda). The main target of the propaganda was the Jewish race. Goebbels’ “propaganda campaigns created

Imagine if instead of going to school you went to the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth was as important as regular school was. The Hitler Youth was Hitler's belief of what people should be: “The weak must be chiselled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp’s steel.” Hitler was teaching the youth what he thought was right.

This IA will address how the Hitler Youth program effected the Nazification of Germany leading up to World War II. Hitler started the Nazi movement in 1919 and led the Nazis for some time before the whole party took control of Germany (Featherman, 1932). The Nazis officially came to power in 1933, and The Hitler Youth was made official that same year (Baldur von Schirach, 67, Dies; Head of Hitler Youth 1933–40, 1974). Hitler chose Baldur von Schirach as the head of the youth program (“The New York Times Archives”, 1974, p. 36). Schirach’s job as the head of the Hitler Youth was to lead an organization that specializes in training the aryan German youth to embody the perfect Nazi. Once the Nazi’s were in control of Germany the Hitler Youth continued to and grow and grow, and eventually became mandatory for all the adolescent aryan youth in Germany (Central Intelligence Agency, p. 14). The Hitler Youth was the main reason that race in Germany became the society and the state (Waite, p. 340), and the German military was so abundant because of the Hitler Youths ability to train kids and put them into war quickly (Central Intelligence Agency, p. 14).

Though one would abhor the educational practices used by Hitler to influence the youth of Germany, it was not only limited to schools. Many middle and upper-class families who were affluent enough to own televisions would often see children’s cartoons dedicated to teaching youth about state-sanctioned anti-semitism and ultra-Aryan-nativism. In one Nazi cartoon, produced in 1944, was aimed toward the French in an attempt to convince little French children that the Allied forces were violent, repressive, and unrelenting. The minute-long cartoon depicted a man with stereotypically Jewish caricatures screaming into the microphone as well as inaccurate anti-American stereotypes such as how dangerous they were and why the children should oppose them

"My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes... That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication... That is how I will create the New Order."

Children are forced and conscripted to join a military group the majority of the time. This means that children have no choice in the matter. Children are key components to some fighting groups as they are very useful weapons. They are recruited because they can be easily manipulated and trained into unconscious obeying of orders and can be almost programmed like robots to show no compassion or conscience. This means that they become very effective weapons with

Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, In Braunau am inn, Austria, the largest town in the upper Austrian Innviertel region. Adolf was the fourth child of six to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. (Rise of Hitler: Adolf Hitler Is Born). At the age of 3 his family moved to Passau, Germany, there he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life. In 1894 Adolf’s family moved back to Austria and settled in Leonding where he attended his studies in Volksschule, a primary school in nearby Fischlham. The discipline of his new school caused Adolf to start acting out and add to the father-son conflict that had already existed. in 1897 the Hitler family moved to Lambach, by this time Adolf was eight and took singing lessons, sang in the church choir and even considered becoming a priest but that changed when the family returned once again and finally decided to stay in Leonding. (Adolf Hitler: Early Years)