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Young People and Hitler’s Nazi Party

Young People and Hitler’s Nazi Party. "My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away... I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth... It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it..." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933. His Purpose, Method,

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Young People and Hitler’s Nazi Party

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  1. Young People and Hitler’s Nazi Party "My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away... I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth... It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it..." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933. His Purpose, Method, Degree of Success, and Lasting Impact Michael Chua Chan Park Ji Seong Song

  2. Purpose What was his goal for the youth?

  3. Purpose What was his goal for the youth? • CompletePatriotismto Germany • Pure Loyalty to Hitler • Physical Strength for war • Will to Join the Army • Desire to Kill all German foes • Unconditional Hatred toward Jews The Jew is our greatest enemy. – on black board

  4. Method What methods did Hitler use?

  5. Method What methods did Hitler use? • Hitler Youth Movement • Loyalty towards Hitler • The only organization • Performance book • Education • Indoctrination • German Teachers League

  6. Degree of Success How successful was the Hitler Youth Movement?

  7. Degree of Success How successful was the Hitler Youth Movement? • High Degree of Success - 8,800,000 members - Rapid population growth - Extreme anti-Semitism - Hitler Youth-majority Nazi movement - Invasion of Poland Lying prone, a member of Hitler Youth trains with a gun.

  8. So What? What can we learn from it?

  9. So What? What can we learn from it? NO MORE • Racial Intolerance • Indoctrination • Militarization of youth • Excessive Patriotism Baldur von Schirach "It is my guilt, ... 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." – Baldur von Schirach

  10. Bibliography Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth. NY: Scholastic, 2005. Brooman, Josh. Hitler’s Germany. NY: Longman Group Limited, 1985. “Hitler Youth.” The History Place. 1999. 17 Jan. 2008 <http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html>. Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to War. UK: Puffin, 2000. “Rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.” SchoolHistory. 2 Oct. 2006. 17 Jan. 2008 <http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/hitler.shtml>.

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