The Youth Movement During World War I

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

In the years from 1929 to 1933 economic hardship, a faltering political regime and generational tensions left many young people with no place to turn. The Nazis used this situation to their advantage, pointing out to the youths the way the Weimar republic government were

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.

Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant

Since the purpose of the Hitler Youth (HJ) and the Nazi League of German Girls (BDM) was the coordination of Germany’s young people into a single national movement that was unquestionably loyal to Hitler, the title of the excerpt “The Führer’s Youth” appears to have been carefully worded to reinforce Nazism’s designs for a unified national community through “Gleichschaltung” and quite obviously the Führer Principle. Bergen illustrates, “For at least some Germans the surge of group activities provided an exciting sense of belonging…a teenager in 1933, later described how she loved being part of the Nazi League of German Girls.” (65). Moreover, the first stanza of the poem reinforced the Nazi principles of ethnic purity (“The boys who are true Germans…”), coordination (“To Hitler’s Youth belong”), cultural unity (“The German Heritage is theirs”), and

Through the course of American history, many great wars and battles have been fought but none have left a greater impact than World War I. World war I was known as the Great War, although America’s initial plan of action was to bring global peace. The tables unfortunately turned on them. The treaty of Versailles which was meant to be a conclusion to the madness, lead to an even greater bloodshed. The Great War span from 1914-1919, within this period of time around 10 million died and 20 million were injured worldwide. The progressive era took place during 1890-1920. The progressive era was a constitutional movement led by a group of citizens that believed that their struggles such as poverty, and violence would get resolved by the government and by education.

Nazi troops marched through the countryside of Germany, breaking into Jewish communities and businesses, capturing and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Jews, all because the current leader of Germany at the time, Adolf Hitler, wanted the Jews working for him or dead. These acts of violence are the stage for the book Night, where a boy recounts his life of imprisonment and death-defying acts of courage, and Hitler Youth, a factual account of the horrors of 1930’s Germany. During these difficult times, Hitler and all of his followers used the punishments put on them after World War Two as an excuse to disobey the laws set on them and began to raise and incredibly powerful military made up of men and women, young and old, and did whatever

The Nazis' Control of Everyday Life in Germany after 1933 In this project I intend to explain how the Nazis controlled everyday life in Germany from 1933 onwards. I shall look at how Youths, Women, Workers, Control and Propaganda and the Jews, were all either part of the control or a victim of it. Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 at Braunau, on the Austro-Bavarian frontier.

Peter Fritzche’s book, Germans into Nazis, contends that, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations…however, voters did not back Hitler mainly because they share his hatred of the Jews…but because they departed from established political traditions in that they were identified at once with a distinctly popular form of ethnic nationalism and with the basic social reforms most Germans counted on to ensure national well-being.” (8-9) His argument rests on the notion that the Nazis had a vision for Germany that incorporated Germans into a national community, throwing off the restraints of a tired government, and propelled them towards a future that would

These young men entered the war straight out of high school. Many of the soldiers didn’t even have the chance to finish school nevertheless live their lives. They died young in the war without having the opportunity to know what being an adult was, going to college, living beyond their youth, having a family, or other life experiences. The previous generation was older men who had family, experienced life, and developed survival skills that helped them during the war.

In her article “I Loved My Grandmother. But She Was a Nazi“, Jessica Shattuck, says she always thought of her grandparents as “ordinary Germans”, but like other ordinary Germans of their generation, they joined the Nazi party in the 1930s (Shattuck 1). Furthermore, she mentioned that a majority of Germans do not talk about their Nazi past. However, her grandmother was willing to talk to Shattuck about her past willingly opening herself up despite possible judgement (Shattuck 2). Shattuck begins explaining how her grandparents joined the Nazi Party due to a youth leadership program as teenagers. The author explained that her grandmother joined ““in hopes of rebuilding Germany” (Shattuck 1). Her grandmother also liked the idea of returning

The impact of World War on social movements, which is including, destroyed empires and created new nationalities. Also, encourage independence movements in the colonies in Europe. In addition, revolutionize new relations between States and establish peace movement. In contrast, there was increased social unrest in Latin America and that affect on youth and women. Aslo, the women belong to many groups, women's movement for the rights of equality and participation in social activities. (Social Movements, By Stefan Rinke)

The German public was only familiar with the resistance group WR, before the actual research began.[1] The late research in the resistance from the youth also arose from mutual beliefs that the youth followed the Nazis from 1933 and that wasn’t looked upon as being likely that the youth had started opposition and resistance groups.[2] In relation to the rising interest in resistance group among the youth, people started to examine WR’s motives and goals by analyzing the 6 leaflets, the graffiti actions in February 1943, diaries and letters. The interest kept on increasing in West Germany as well as East.

Back in the 1930s Germany really depended on their youth. They were putting so much effort to it so that they could change the future and achieve their goals. They really cared so much about the nazi youth that they made propaganda on it and they controlled the school system just to “help” the youth become better people. During the times that Germany had become against jews, many german children had decided to make more than a couple of groups that rebelled against the nazi party each in their own way. Take the swing kids for example they instead of listening to the nazi music that everyone had to listen you they listened to american jazz music, they didn't use any kind of violence, but yes that was some way of rebelling. Instead of listening to the Nazi music they listened to american jazz music. There were multiple groups of young rebels back then but another major one was Edelweiss pirates. These children would resist the nazi party, they were more of a boys and girls scout than the other group because of their openness to both genders and because of their activities like camping and hiking. In some extreme cases these kids were sent to concentration camps because of their resistance.

A defeated nation sending 12-year-old children into the front lines, undying fanatical patriotism - the story of the Third Reich’s struggle for survival and fight to the death seems to defy logic. The application of the Marxist principle of the alienation of a worker from fellow workers is critical to understanding how the Nazi Party retained its almost paradoxical hold on the populace through paranoia and fear and how years of scapegoating fed a parasitic internal distrust embedded deep within Nazi Germany.