The Hitler Youth

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"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 bear 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." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933.

The Hitler Youth By 1933, Hitler Youth membership stood at 100,000 In 1936, the figure stood at 4 million members It became all but compulsory to join the Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth catered for 10 to 18 year olds There were separate organisations for boys and girls Boys - were to prepare them for military service Girls – were prepared for motherhood

Activities for boys: Military athletics Marching Bayonet drills Grenade throwing Trench digging Map reading Pistol shooting

Activities for girls: Should be able to run 60 metres in 14 seconds Throw a ball 12 metres Complete a 2 hour march Swim 100 metres Know how to make a bed!

Physical fitness, according to Hitler, was much more important for his young people than memorizing "dead facts" in the classroom School schedules were adjusted to allow for at least one hour of physical training in the morning and one hour each evening A portrait of Hitler hung in every classroom

History Hitler focused on the subject of history Students studied the Beer Hall Putsch and other important Nazi events Biology The focus was on Social Darwinism

THE NUREMBERG LAWS (1935)

The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor Prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between Jews and Germans and also the employment of German females under forty-five in Jewish households

The Reich Citizenship Law This law stripped Jews of their German citizenship and introduced a new distinction between Reich citizens and nationals