Teenagers Against Hitler Summary

Despite all the challenges Ben faced, he and the other partisans should so many acts of courage. One of the acts of courage was when the Jewish people, started fighting back. “ Tens of thousands of people, including many Jews, fought against the Nazis” (8) This is an act of courage because, it was almost certain that they were gonna die, whether it be murdered by the Nazi, or of something else. Another act of courage is when they began sabotaging the German army. “ They Blew up factories, sabotaged trains with supplies for the Nazi, Stole weapon shipments, and upset the flow of supplies to German troops.” This an act of courage because despite the dangers they helped the surviving Jews while risking their own lives. Ben also showed courage when we would sneak out of the ghetto to get food. This an act of courage because despite the dangers they helped the surviving Jews while risking their own

Evaluate the impact of Nazi Policy on the young people in Germany between 1933 and 1939.

When Hitler came into power he used his power to put jews people on the spot, he believed Jews were the one the to blame on why they lost the WWI. During pre-war times of WWII, Hitler targeted jews and his intention was to do everything that he could to ruin them. Jews were forced to wear the star of David on them at all time

In 1937, the world was at war.This war was one of the most widespread and deadliest

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

Ben was a happy child until 1945.The Nazi troops took over. Their leader was Adolf Hitler. In the middle of the war the Jews fought against the Nazi troops.

For example, Ben sneaks out of the ghetto, and blends in with the other polish people since he has blond hair and blue eyes, to steal food for his family. The text says, “Ben soon learned tricks for sneaking out of the ghetto to find food for his family. There were holes in the wall and tunnels that led to the other side. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Ben blended in easily with the rest of the Polish population.” This shows that Ben was able to find food for his family. The next example is Ben leaves the ghetto and joins a group called the partisans, who fight against German forces. The text states, “But Ben would soon learn that he could do something after all—if he dared. Tens of thousands of people, including thousands of Jews, were fighting back against the Nazis. They were called partisans.” Furthermore, Ben decides to leave his family and the ghetto to fight against the German soldiers, which could lead to Ben getting killed if he gets caught. The last example is that Ben helps to blow up trains with weapons for the Germans. In the text it says, “Ben volunteered for dangerous missions blowing up trains that carried supplies to German troops.” This shows that not only is determined enough to escape the ghetto to find food for his family, but he is so determined to defeat the German troops that he joined the partisans, risking his own life in fighting against

One of the challenges Ben faced was he and his family was crammed into a small ghetto with 400,00 other people, “Some 400,00 Jews were crammed into the ghetto.” (8) This was hard because with all the people inside it made a easy target for the Nazis to kill. Soon Ben was able

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

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

Hitler's Success in Winning the Hearts and Minds of Youths During Hitler’s rule, he attempted to gain as much support as possible and impose Nazi values into everyday life. Hitler aimed a large amount of propaganda at women but he also targeted at the youth generation. Similarly to women, it’s very difficult to determine their true feelings or if the evidence obtained is genuine. It is also debated whether or not Hitler actually won over the hearts and minds of the youth or if he only controlled them.

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

Confronting Hitler, a political history published in 2010, examines the failure of the German Social Democrats(SPD) in maintaining the institutional integrity of the Weimar Republic. Smaldone produces biographies of ten of the SPD’s most prominent leaders, revealing the aspects of these activists' lives that were most consequential in shaping their political outlook during the republic's final crisis. Through this method, a case-study is created in order to more broadly understand both the ideological and political failures of democratic-socialist movements throughout the 20th century. Tracing the ebb and flow of

The little known story of the beginning of the Danish resistance as told in The Boys Who Challenged Hitler almost never got told. As Hoose relates in his introduction, while on tour in Denmark in 2000, he visited the Museum of Danish Resistance in Copenhagen and came across a special exhibit called the "Churchill Club". This group was started by a group of Danish teens during World War II to resist the Nazi occupation of their country. Unlike neighbouring Norway, the Danish settled quickly into an uneasy relationship with their German occupiers and these teenage boys were shocked and ashamed that their countrymen would be so willing to work with the Germans.

How Young People React to Nazi Regime The youth of Germany were an important target for the Nazis. Hitler's aim was to indoctrinate the young people as they were seen as an easy target. Hitler said, "It is my great educative work I am beginning with the young… With them I can make a new world." Hitler said this because he knew that the future of Germany was lying in its children's hands.