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Hitler Youth

Hitler Youth. “My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must

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Hitler Youth

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  1. Hitler Youth

  2. “My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must hear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes… That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication… That is how I will create the New Order”

  3. History of the Hitler Youth • The Hitler Youth program was influenced by an organization for young German boys that was similar to the boy scouts of today. It was called Wandervogel.

  4. In 1920, Adolf Hitler, 31 at the time, became the leader of the German Workers’ Party and renamed it the Nazi Party. He soon forms a youth league for the party.

  5. It was free to join. • Libraries were built that banned certain books because they were harmful to Nazi ideals. • Uniforms were worn. • Meetings helped to bond the members through speeches and discussions. • Leaders of the Nazi youth league were only a few years older than the members.

  6. Nov. 9, 1923 -Hitler led a march of 3,000 toward the center of Munich. The display was disbanded by police. It seemed that the Nazi party was coming to an end.

  7. July 4th,1926 – Hitler, after being in prison for two years, was released. He immediately started working towards a goal of creating a Nazi Germany. He again created a youth league. With Kurt Gruber as its new leader, it was called the Hitler Youth.

  8. Propaganda

  9. March 1922 - an official Nazi newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, urged all Germans from ages 14 to 18 to join the Nazi’s youth league.

  10. Hitler Youth Ideals • "love of one's country and people, enjoyment of honest open combat and of healthy physical activity, the veneration of ethical and spiritual values, and the rejection of those values originating from Jewry..."

  11. Reasons Why Hitler Youth Was Appealing • Parents tried to discourage their children from joining. • Due to the fact of the organization being illegal, it appealed to many teenagers. • The great depression turned people off from the government at the time.

  12. Methods of Propaganda • 1930 -Members of the Hitler youth stormed movie theaters to stop the showing of the anti-war film “All is Quiet on the Western Front”.

  13. Story of Herbert Norkus • On January 26th, 1932, Herbert Norkus went out on the streets with other Hitler Youth members to post signs about an upcoming Hitler youth meeting. A gang of Communists attacked the boys. All got away except for Norkus. After he was stabbed two times he fled to the nearest house hoping that the owner would help him. Unfortunately for Norkus, the owner shut the door on his face. He left a trail of bloody handprints along the sides of the house as he tried to escape. The communists caught up to him, and stabbed him five more times.

  14. A movie was made titled “Hitler Junge Quex” for propaganda purposes

  15. Actual members of Hitler Youth, ages 14 to 18, observed real Nazi Party leaders and were inspired to do the same. Even younger children, from 10 to 14, consequently looked up to those older to them, and had ideas planted in their vulnerable minds.

  16. By 1936, it was mandatory for all German children to join Hitler Youth. Once the war had started, there were 8.8 million in the organization.

  17. Purpose of the Hitler Youth • Victory, first and foremost • To deliver draft notices • Distribute ration cards each month • Collecting scrap metal from every household • Girls worked in hospitals and offered encouragement for soldiers waiting to be deployed

  18. The Nuremburg Trials • After Germany lost the war, many Nazi party members went on trial including Lieutenant Baldur von Schirach, the former leader of Hitler Youth.

  19. All of those on trial were forced to watch footage of hundreds of bodies being bulldozed into a group grave. All were taken aback, as if they had no idea that these ordeals were taking place. Schirach was ashamed of himself, and his leader that everyone had thought was infallible. He went on to say…

  20. “It is my guilt which I will have to carry before God and the German nation, that I educated the youth of that people; that I raised the youth for a man who, for many years, I considered impeccable as a leader and as a head of state; that I organized youth just as I did. It is my guilt that I educated German youth for a man who committed murder by the millions.”

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