Hitler's Influence On Youth

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).

"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."

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)

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.

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.

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.

World War Two was filled with many different leaders, who all carried different leadership tactics that supported the efforts of the war in various ways. Two leaders that had a huge impact on the outcome of the war were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. These two leaders were most commonly known for their negative impact on society; however, I am choosing to compare the good that these two leaders did for their country during their time in leadership.

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.

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.

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.

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

Adolf Hitler began one of the most influential and vicious fascist regimes known in history. If the First World War had not happened, along with the humiliation and defeat Germany suffered, Hitler and his messages riddled with hate would not have been popularized. Hitler promised change and was seen almost as a redeemer of Germany to his followers. His speeches were a form of manipulation that enlightened individuals on his motives, some of which he concealed from them. The three most important things one should know in order to understand the context of my document, "Speech of August 1, 1923", by Adolf Hitler to the National Socialists, are the debilitating Treaty of Versailles, the community of National Socialists, and Hitler's rise to power to develop control over the movement.

All single and married women up to the age of thirty-five who do not already have four children should be obligated to produce four children by radically pure, German men.” This statement was made by Hitler’s government in 1933 that became a further law in Germany. Analyzing this argument it’s possible to say that Hitler Youth movement started before the birth of the child.

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