Role Of Youth In Nazi Germany

This source’s context contains information about how the youth were trained in preparation for the war and what they were trained for. It gives information about the age ranges for the different groups and rites of passages. It also describes the separation between boys and girls in these youth camps, and is thus valuable to one researching Hitler’s Youth. A limitation of this is that does not reveal anything about Hitler’s success or failure in his military involvement, or reveal anything about his invasions into other countries but simply informs about his Youth programs. It does not reveal his military involvement and is thus not valuable to one researching Hitler’s Involvement in other countries.

Now back to the Hitler Youth motto they even did drills for the kids because they wanted them to think and act as one person did.But the Germans and the Nazis did not know their children and grandchildren could not succeed in life if they didn’t

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.

“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

Hitler isolated the youth from the rest of Germany to be able to easily manipulate their beliefs. In 1926 the Hitler Youth was founded to train boys to enter the SA (Storm Troopers), a Nazi Party paramilitary formation. After 1933, however, youth leaders sought to integrate boys, while isolating them from the German girls and from their parents, into the Nazi national community to prepare them for service in the armed forces as soldiers. The Nazi army was such a dominant

The whole program to rebuild Germany was based on the idea that Germany had been betrayed and that the only way for Germany to avenge itself upon its enemies and put an end to the conflict that had begun in 1914 was through military action. (Nelson) Through the bad state of the country, the Nazis were able to use propaganda that influenced the German people to believe that it was right to punish the groups who they believed were to blame for their

As the Nazi regime aggressively implemented state approved recruitment tools, the rise of Hitler Youth can be attributed to the state- induced discord between the child and the parent. In the widely disseminated propaganda movie Hitlerjunge-Quex, a twelve year old defied his abusive Communist father and joins the local Hitler Youth chapter where he is made out to be a national hero because of the act. Defying his own family and choosing the fraternity of the Hitler Youth active army regiment as his actual family was the unofficial Nazi state norm. The film conveyed a simple idea which divided German children and their parents; Aryan youth were solely the property of Hitler and the Nazi Party. In other words; the Aryan youth belongs to his country, not his parents; thus the film brought about the New Nazi order. The film’s plot was to appeal to many teens and raise widespread sympathy for the cause, and by drawing a divide between the loyal Nazi youth and the disloyal communist youth was used to draw more and more children to be recruited. Richard Weikart, a professor of History at the California State University at Stanislaus stated, “Nazis hated disloyal parents even more than they [hated] anti- semites,” (Weikart). Nazis put parents in a legal limbo by warning parents that interference and failure to cooperate with the Nazi party would result in jail time and having their children raised in Nazi approved foster homes. Hitler often stated in a speech, “Your children belong

The children were being forced into following Hitler when he “made it mandatory for all children from the age of 10 to become members of the Hitler Youth” (fcit.usf.edu). Along with all of the children being in this organization, the army “began training the boys in the use of rifles” (fcit.usf.edu). These children were essentially being abused, because Hitler’s followers were forcing them to fight in the war, too. “In 1945 American soldiers reported fighting against entire units of Germans comprised of soldiers twelve years old and younger. Once these children were sent into combat, they often fought to the death” (fcit.usf.edu).

“The Hitler Youth was founded in 1926” (“The Nazi Party”). As stated by Meinecke, “The Hitler Youth is not a boy scout or a girl guide organization… it is a compulsory Nazi formation which has consciously sought to breed hate, treachery, and cruelty into the minds and souls of every German child. It is in the true sense of the word education for death” (Conley). Hitler “based the Hitler Youth on anti-intellectualism, focusing on military training in preparation for becoming a soldier at 18” ("The Nazi Party”). The Hitler Youth was split up throughout the world, with some of the groups sent as far away as South America. “Baldur von Schirach was appointed the Reich Youth Leader” (“The Nazi Party”). There were age restrictions for the German Youth under Hitler. “German Youth could join the Hitler Youth beginning at the age of 10” (“The Nazi Party”). Hitler thought that the Hitler youth would help the “Third Reich last 1000 years” (Conley). The Hitler Youth played a major part in Hitler’s ultimate plan to eliminate the Jews, the

With many young receptive minds at his disposal Hitler initiated the plans that saw all members of Hitler youth indoctrinated into the Nazi ideals. Hitler made it publicly clear what his plans for brainwashing the youths would consist of: “After these youths have entered our organisations at the age of ten, and there experienced, for the first time, some fresh air….. We shall under no circumstances return them into the hands of our old champions of class and social standing, but instead place them immediately in the party, or the labour front, the SA or SS….. And thus they will never be free again for the rest of their lives.” The Nazis successfully achieved the indoctrination by employing many different subtle brainwashing techniques. For example, at drill times, the repetitive use of a song helped numb the young minds of the Hitler Youth. These songs would invariably be related to duty, blood, honour, soil and above all death and fighting. The lyrics of one such song goes like this: “We are marching for Hitler through night and dread/ with the banner of youth for freedom and bread.” This indoctrination

Nazi wanted to control young people because the young people are the future of the germany. If the nazi control them, the germany can be control for a very long time. The nazi believe that individuals must be willing and ready to be sacrifice themselves for there nation. Hitler wanted to take advantage of the young people as they are the next generation of Nazis. The nazis would take over the german children's lives and run their lives for them.

This demonstrates how these extracurricular groups supplemented the school curriculum and assisted the ruling parties of their counties achieve their goals. The Hitler Youth’s emphasis on preparing its members for future roles was especially apparent after his plans for rearmament were enacted in 1935, as the physical exercise and military training they received as

Naziism had a huge impact on German youth during Hitler’s reign of power over the state. The life of a German child changed dramatically during the 1920’s and 30’s, especially for

Education for the HJ changed drastically during the years after Hitler became power, leading into the war. No longer were math, science and literature the focus in grammar school. It changed focus to Nazi racial principles, German history and leadership training. Teachers could not teach their normal lecture plans, and the German history they taught their students was

The Nazi party taught children to be obedience and to be able to make any sacrifice to save the country.