Effects Of Deutch Jungvolk On German Youth

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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).

While there were several implications of decisions made by youth who became disillusioned with the Hitler Youth, the most severe implication was that these kids were willing to do almost anything to help their corrupted leader. Due to the fact that the government was almost entirely controlled by Adolf Hitler, the answer to whether or not the government anticipated the consequences was based completely on his ideals. Therefore, the government most certainly anticipated the consequences of forming a program based on the ideals of Adolf Hitler, as no one was really able to know that this program in its entirety was corrupt, and by no means was Hitler going to admit to the true motives behind the creation of this program. In conclusion, there

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

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.

One characteristic of totalitarianism being shown in the movie is education/indoctrination of the youth. They did this through an organization called the Hitlerjugend, or commonly referred to in the movie as the HJs. The nazis were brainwashing boys and young men into believing Hitler’s ideology. One example of how this is depicted in the movie is Peter being forced to join the HJ after getting in trouble with the police for stealing a radio. Once he joined he would then be introduced to the “teachings” of the HJ teachers, with the teachers derogating Jews. This is an example of education of the youth because young men were strongly encouraged and in Peter’s case, forced to join the HJ. Once they joined they were taught about Hitler’s ideas, with them usually bad-mouthing other races or anything that was an influence from America. Another way that education of the youth was being shown in the movie was when a Jewish boy was being beaten up by a group of HJs. This is an example of education of the youth because the Hitlerjugend were successfully brainwashing the boys and young men to discriminate and hate Jews. Finally education of the youth is shown when Thomas and Peter were discussing about the HJ, one interesting point that appeared during their discussion was when Thomas mentioned all the rewards

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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.

You might think war is fought with men and weapons, but one of the most dangerous weapons a country can use is also an unexpected one. Propaganda was one of the most dangerous weapons that was used in World War 2 by both the Nazis and the Allies. War is fought with men and weapons but, how do you get those men to join your cause. This is where propaganda comes in, but let’s start at the beginning.

Out of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, over a million and a half of these were children. Only six to eleven percent of Europe’s prewar Jewish population of children survived, as compared with thirty-three percent of the adults. During World War II, Jewish children were a target for being deported to death or concentration camps because of their reputation as unfit to work. Nazi’s took Jewish children from their families because they did not represent the Aryan child. Children, usually under the age of 12, were thought of as unable to work and Jewish people were viewed as enemies. Children did not often survive the concentration camps. One of these camps was Auschwitz-Birkenau, where only 180 children survived. Children who survived were normally male teenagers who faked their ages and claimed to have skills for work. The non-Jewish children were put into Hitler Youth programs to learn how to be a true Nazi and live in a certain way. The Jewish children were sent to death camps or work camps until they starved or were put into gas chambers, where they perished. Over a million and a half children were murdered during the Holocaust because of their inability to work and because the Nazis wanted to cut off the bloodline of all Jewish people, in order to carry out their final solution. Jewish children in World War II were targeted, hidden, and murdered and some took on different skills and identities in order to have a chance of survival.

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

Led by the Hitler Youth as young as 15, kids became spies, saboteurs, attacked in battalions, and destroyed bridges. What they didn't know was that the armies Hitler commanded no longer existed. They had been demolished by the Allies. They were the last line of hopeless defense. As the Allies pushed farther into the city and hope dwindled even further, boy soldiers committed suicide, rather than face the Fatherland defeated. To those captured, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945 and their cherished Fürher’s suicide couldn't have been more devastating. Nazi Germany had been the only thing they'd ever known. To make their demoralized lived worse, the truth to all the lies Hitler’s regime told came to light. A generation that once held such a

“the Hitler Youth was such a group, with its own departments of culture, school, press, propaganda and so on. All this early organization was done because Hitler realized that, if and when he finally managed to over throw the Weimar government, we would need to have something ready to take its place immediately.”

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.

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.