Triumph Of The Will: The Hitler Youth Movement

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

As Germany and there economy crumbled trying to pay off the reparations of ww1 the inflammation and unemployment was increasing by the day Germany look for radical change and it was Adolf Hitler. Behind him his cult of personality. he formed it using propaganda showing Germany a picture of a perfect life with where you have a happy wife at home and the men work and the children are perfect giving Germany a sense of nationalism. He sometimes would use propaganda portray that Hitler was larger than life and his ideas of politics and to impose his own beliefs in anti semitism to his people. however people loved adolf hitler saying thing such as "Hitler for Germany -- all of Germany of Hitler”

During the 1930’s Germany was at an all time low as the worldwide economic depression hit Germany hard. The confidence in Germany from the people was lacking due to the fresh memory of their defeat in World War I. This caused great need of a new leader, someone who could give the people change, and Adolf Hitler knew he could do just that. His rapid rise to power began when he started to promise things that intrigued the German people. He promised the hopeless and needy a better life, and promised opportunities that were exactly what the people needed. This caught the attention of so many young unemployed and middle class people. His party, known as the Nazi Party, won 33 percent of the votes in the 1932 elections. And by January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor, which was the head of the German government. Germany started to feel like they might've found the leader they'd been so desperate for.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party used nationalism to great effect in Germany that spured the Second World World. After WWI, many Germans blamed the new government for accepting the unfair treaty as conditions became miserable. People who could not find jobs began to drift into the Communist and National Socialist parties established by Hitler. They decided that it was the necessary solution. In 1933, Hitler came to power as dictator of Germany and preached a racist brand of fascism. He promised to end the humiliating conditions caused by the German defeat in WWI. He knew how to win people's obedience and trust, through their fears and insecurities. He almost immediately got Germany back into the factories and began secretly building up army and weapons. His real motives were to expand German territory and dominate Europe and the whole world that became the prelude to another war.

Then the Nazis had to prepare for the future and the future of Germany was the youth. Many organisations like the Hitler youth and the league for German Maidens were set up to teach the youth to follow the Nazis. In the Hitler youth they were taught like the military, neat, tidy and organised. The youth saw Hitler as a father figure in the fatherland and obeyed him. Then Hitler used indoctrination in the education system to recruit them into the army as loyal Nazis. There were subtle Nazi views added into all school work to brainwash the youth, as they were naive and didn’t see the wrong side of the Nazis true nature. The future of the people’s community was successfully secure and the Nazis would keep control for years to come.

Children were not only drawn into Nazi ideology through education reforms, but the creation of Nazi Youth Organizations also attracted a majority of German youth to the Nazi belief system. The single greatest tool used by Hitler to convince the youth to work towards the Volksgemeinschaft was the Hitler Youth. The goal of this party-run youth organization was to brainwash children to think and act German, and to wipe out class distinction and individualism. Like the education system, the Hitler Youth also emphasized physical fitness, as a key part of Aryan superiority. It also provided a plethora of group activities, the goal of these activities was to build trust for your

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

Through the burdensome reparations imposed by World War one, Adolf Hitler was able to rise to power, marking the beginning of the Third Reich. In the years from 1928- 1933 of economic oppression, a dysfunctional political regime left the youth of Germany abandoned. Hitler used this situation of their benefit, guiding the path for youth that the Weimar republic government couldn't. To achieve his dream of “A thousand Year Reich”, Hitler established the Hitler youth movement who were a logical extension of his beliefs, highlighting the notion of their importance to future of the Reich and aimed to produce a generation of loyal supporters. Created in the 1920’ s-1930’s, the intsituiton catered for 10 to 18 year old boys and girls. The Hitler

The Hitler Youth began in the 1920’s Hitler called it The Youth League of Socialist workers Party/ NSDAP. Also known as the Hitler Youth, young boys would be recruited from ages 10-14. Hitler youth did not gain many members at first, but would over time. Hitlerjugend often abbreviated as HJ was the youth organization. In 1937, a Hitler Youth rifle school was also established. About 1.5 million boys were trained in rifle shooting.

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

A major part of any society is the children, the building blocks of the future. Hitler recognised that to establish long lasting rule he need to win the minds of the young. The aim of the Nazis was to provide a means of indoctrinating the youth of Germany. The Youth League was a Nazi group for young people that had existed since 1922. Hitler’s rise to power greatly boosted membership numbers. As the three greatest influence on a German child were their families, their schools and youth movement. The Nazis wanted to control all of these things. After 1933 the ban previously applied to the Hitler youth by Chancellor Heinrich Bruning to stop political violence in 1932, was lifted, the German youth were ‘encouraged’ to join the Hitler Youth.

Though it seemed that Hitler Youth had died out, the contemporary revival of such fringe groups were propelled into the mainstream by ultra-populist and nativist groups ranging from North America, across Europe, and even in Israel. In Israel, a group called Patrol 36 consisted of eight Russian, neo-Nazi teenagers who qualified to live in Israel as they all had one Jewish great-grandparent. According to a 2008 Journeyman Pictures documentary, the Patrol destroyed synagogues with swastikas and graffiti, and attacked orthodox Jews, Arabs, the elderly, migrant workers from Africa, and raped Jewish women. The group posted videos of their own attacks on Facebook, which were subsequently discovered by the police. In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, a 29 year old self proclaimed Nazi and fascist assassinated 77 people in two attacks; members of the Norwegian center- left Labour Party as well as Oslo citizens. According to BBC News, He believed that the rise in immigration from the Muslim world threatened the Norwegian way of life and thus blew up government buildings as well as shooting up an island retreat for the

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. With this, the Nazi party came to power. Originally called the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazi for short), the Nazi party emphasized how Laissez-faire capitalism, economic liberalism, and democracy failed in government. The National Socialists stressed the importance of the impeccability of the German race. Although they had very determined ideas, The Nazi party began as a relatively small group in 1918. But coming into the 1930’s this was not the case. The widespread use of propaganda and radio broadcasting were instrumental to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.

After Hitler took power of the German country in 1933, the youth movement took control to organize the youth so one day they could be immensely helpful to wartime efforts and helped bring economic prosperity. The children could be easily manipulated and were used for service to become future militants or contributors that would carry out Hitler’s war policies, hopefully impacting the economy coming time to the war. After the economic turmoil inflicted from World War 1, the Hitler Youths leader Kurb Grubber, highlighted the purpose of the Youth, stating that,” The Hitler Youth is the new Youth movement of social revolutionary... who are chained to the destiny of the nation... in order to emancipate the state and the economy from the shackles.”(Koch, H,1985)

On 2 August, Hinderburg died. Armed forces take oath of loyalty to Hitler as Führer and German Head of State.