As the Nazis came to power in the late 1930’s, Hitler wanted to engage all of the generations, as well as future generations, in his plan to create a racially pure and dominant society. Hitler’s goal not only applied to Central Europe but also to the domination of the entire world. One of the first groups to form, the Hitler Youth, came to light in 1922. Later sub groups formed and from 1933-1945 those were the leading organizations to shape the youth of Germany into Hitler’s molds of “perfect” Aryan children. As the Nazi Party gained strength and power, Hitler garnered his support in the youth by creating outside-school youth groups and later requiring the participation in youth organizations, in an effort to recruit more followers to ultimately …show more content…
In his book Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler said, “Whosever has the youth has the future”. Hitler pushes this thought into reality has the Nazi Party began to set up youth groups, separated by gender. By the age of 10 boys were initiated into Jungvolk and girls joined Jungmädel. Creating this system allowed the Nazi’s to control German lives from and extremely young age and shape them into loyal party members in the future. By separating the groups by gender, Hitler immediately appealed to more traditional Germans. Yet at the same time, the “modern” and progressive supporters, especially in the Weimar Republic, opposed the Nazi’s and felt as if this new power was a step back into conventional Germany, where woman were not allowed to work and men had to take all of the financial reponsibility. Hitler’s main goal however was “a violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth… [the youth] must be indifferent to pain…no weakness or tenderness in it”. By looking into the core values and ideas Hitler had, there is a direct correlation with an effort to make children “indifferent to pain…or tenderness” and with how/what these organizations taught these children to do. To require these groups weekly and then to change …show more content…
After taking out the attractions and ultimately requiring the attendance of youth groups, much of the youth were trained to march. Many of the boys and girls gladly went along, and were prideful to serve Hitler and the Nazi regime. The “Marching picture” portrays how regimented and carefully controlled these youth groups were with boys marching bearing flags, matching uniforms, and badges. Marching drills and marching songs were a common practice in youth groups in order to prepare these children for war and to create fit, disciplined children, reiterating one of Hitler’s main goals. The implementation of these practices led the Nazi to gain a higher reputation and power among the citizens of Nazi Germany. Similarly, looking at the effects of this strict order and practice, at the age of 8, Susan, a young German, was scolded by her parents with her loyalty to Hitler. The next day she told her organization leaders and her parents were arrested. Susan, being only 8 years old was so influenced by the fundamentals of these youth organizations that she felt the need to tell her youth group leaders of a small issue. This led to bigger repercussions as her parents were then sought out and arrested, for some of the littlest of comments. This incident shows the greater effect and influence that these groups had on the
The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis, describes the great challenges Ben, his family, and many other Jewish families faced over the rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis amid World War II. History Since the end of World War II in 1918 Germany had been struggling, and their community was in no condition for war (6). But, Hitler took power by tapping into those feelings, and declared that Germans were superior to everyone else (6). Adolf Hitler was plotting the annihilation of Europe’s 9.5 million
The article “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis shows the challenges of a Jewish family during World War 2 and how a young teenager rebelled against the Nazis and Hitler. In 1939 in the city of Warsaw Ben and his Jewish family were rounded up and forced into Warsaw’s ghetto. Later, Ben joined a partisan group and fought the Nazis and Hitler. This was a great act of courage but came at the price of his family’s life.
The Nazis tried to indoctrinate them with Nazi ideology, brainwashing the German youth. They wanted to take away all social structures and traditions. All of the youth throughout Germany sang the same Nazi songs, wore the same uniforms, and participated in similar activities. The members had to attend meetings and events regularly. There was interference with church and school, because they had so many meetings and events.
Another big way the Nazis manipulated people was through the Nazi youth camps. The youth groups turned the Nazi ideas and ways into a fun summer camp-like idea for young children. Teens at these camps were told to reproduce and that it was okay to do so before marriage because they are “married to the Reich”. The groups of girls seemed to focus more on things such as gymnastics while the boys' camp became a sort of mini military. These camps would make the boys learn to idolize the war until they were chosen to help
This is shown when the author wrote, “These messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of Youth: dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful,”. The Youth of Germany was the future so Hitler saw this as an opportunity to spread his movement. This was a smart idea because it made the Nazis more powerful because of the popularity and growing society, Hitler’s aims for the Hitler Youth was to get boys ready for the military. The author explain the Hitler Youth and wrote, “Founded in 1926, the original purpose of the Hitler Youth was to train boys to enter the SA (Storm Troopers), a Nazi Party paramilitary formation,”. The Hitler Youth readys boys for military to prepare them for his army which is behind the Nazi Movement.
In the article, “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis explains Ben Kamm’s life as a Jewish Boy living in Germany, when Hitler was in charge. During WWII. Ben lived through one of the most terrifying events in the world. Nazi troops and their collaborators shot them, starved them, worked them to death, and systematically murdered them in the gas chambers or death camps. Even though doing anything at that time could be a chance of death Ben showed a lot of courage throughout the time by fighting against Hitler.
Jutta Rüdiger was the leader of a part of the Hitler Youth called the League of German Girls In a speech to the league, she says that The Hitler Youth was the only youth movement to acknowledge “that the death of two million soldiers in the World War signified a responsibility... [of] serving Germany through deeds” (Doc. 24). She and the rest of the organization advocated for having youth who were “politically conscious” (Doc. 24). She believed that the Hitler Youth helped teenagers establish their own opinions in ways that no other organization has done in the past. A politically right German teenager named Melita Maschmann felt the same way.
For this written task, I created a pamphlet that could be handed to new members of the Spies. My idea was based off of how chastity was conditioned into children through “rubbish that was dinned into them at school” (68 Orwell). I believed that if chastity was taught in schools, other values and beliefs must be drilled into children, for the Party wants complete control. Thus, I chose to focus on how the message of the Youth League and the Spies may be introduced into schools. More specifically, I wanted to showcase how the Spies may introduce the idea of reporting parents for committing a crime.
This didn 't bother hitler at all though. He wanted strong young men for war. This was called a “Natzified school system”. Hitler once said “My program for educating youth is hard,” 34 universities participated in the book burning. The total of books burned was 25,000 books.
Transcending the Untranscendable German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” Nietzsche’s proclamation would be in direct opposition to Puritan societies of the 1600s. Throughout history, social movements have often been led by society’s youth. The Free Speech Movement of the 20th century originated on a college campus, and spread rapidly across the country, inspiring copious amounts of youth activism in protesting the Vietnam War. As Nietzsche suggests, a governing body is at great fault when they encourage and require conformity from their youth.
World War I ended in 1918 with the victorious Allied powers, and the peace-promising Treaty of Versailles. However, this treaty 's peace did not last long as its unrealistic demands caused strong resentment within the Central powers against the Allied powers. Territorial losses, reparation payments, and inflation all left Europe in economic ruins. The damage and destruction that resulted from World War I paved a clear path that allowed for World War II to occur. It began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler gained power and, with the help of the Nazi Party, turned Germany in a totalitarian dictatorship.
Hitler’s Youth then fought in wars. “In 1945 American soldiers reported fighting against entire units of Germans comprised of soldiers twelve years old and younger” (“A Teacher’s Guide” 4). Once the children were part of Hitler’s Youth, they frequently fought until their
Retaining one’s virtue whilst living in Nazi Germany is challenging,
In both the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the film Swing Kids conformity and rebellion is used to reveal that no everyone followed Hitler’s lead and many stood up for what they believed but on the other side many people did conform to Hitler’s ideas. Throughout The Book Thief and Swing Kids there are many similarities that help us understand what people went through during the time Hitler took over. Three similarities that help argue that The Book Thief and Swing Kids have a common theme are, Liesel and Peter both had something close to them that rebelled against the Nazi group, The Huberman’s hid Max, while Peter hid his dancing and Rudy, Liesel’s best friends family was apart of the Nazi group where as Peters best friend Thomas
When reading this book The Wave, by Todd Strasser, you are expected to have some basic knowledge about World War two and how Nazis killed the Jews, Hitler. Without any knowledge of World War two then you would not understand the main idea of the experiment, which was to show the senior history class what it’s was like being a Nazi and getting an understanding of why and how they influenced and brain washed all those people into doing such cruel and inhuman act of killing over 11 million jews. The character of Todd Strasser intuitively understood this need in teenagers, and the rapid spread of The Wave was due in great part to their vulnerability to the most attractive aspects of Fascism and Nazism: belonging to a group that is special in