1. The Hitler Youth
R.Shields
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2. What The Hitler Youth Was
The Hitler Youth was Hitler’s version of the Boy Scouts.
It was his way of preparing the youth for the future.
If he brainwashed the young then they would follow him when they were older.
The Hitler Youth taught the children how to think and how to behave.
It prepared the boys for a life in the army and the girls for a life as a house wife.
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3. The Hitler Youth Group The youth was very important to Hitler.
The Nazi’s couldn’t impose their beliefs of the old.
Children could be indoctrinated. Indoctrinated means to make someone believe something so strongly that nothing will stop their belief.
The children were encouraged to betray there parents if they were disloyal to the Nazi’s.
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4. The Beginning of the Hitler Youth
1933 the Hitler Youth had 100,00 members.
In 1936 it grew to 4 million.
It became compulsory in 1936 when Hitler made the “Hitler Youth Law”
With this law you had to be a member but you could get away with being a member and paying but not turning up.
In 1939 Hitler made a new law that made this impossible.
You had to turn up.
Other youth groups were closed.
Church linked groups were abolished.
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5. Boys and Girls The boys and girls youth groups were very different.
They had different groups and learnt
different things.
The girls learnt needle craft and how to
be a good house wife.
The boys were prepared for the army.
Boys joined the DEUTSCHES JUNGVOLK (DJ) German Young People between the ages of 10 – 13.
Then the HITLER-JUGEND (HJ) Hitler Youth between 14 – 18 yrs
Girls joined the JUNGMADELBUND (JM) league of Young Girls between the ages 0f
Then the BUND DEUTSCHER MADEL (BDM) League of German Girls between the ages of
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6. What The boys Learnt Things that were taught were: Marching Map making
Finding directions with the stars
Shooting
Trench digging
Using dugouts
Creeping under barbed wire
Bayonet drill
Gas defence
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7. The Girls
The girls weren’t as important to the Nazi’s because they couldn’t join the army.
They still learnt marching but they didn’t learn the amount of army based activities the boys did.
They learnt how to cook and sew so that they could look after their future husbands.
They went camping, played games, played sport, hiking, singing and other such activities.
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8. The Oath When the children joined up they took the oath:
“In the presence of this blood flag which represents
Our Fuehrer, I swear to devote all my energies, all
My strength, to the saviour of our country, Adolf
Hitler, I am willing and ready to give up my life for
Him, so help me God. One People. One Nation.
One Fuehrer”
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9. The Running of the Camp The camps were ran just like an army camp.
They had no time to themselves.
The drills started after a meagre breakfast.
They then began military exercises.
They practised exercises like throwing grenades and rifle shooting.
Then they had theoretical instructions of military tactics.
The spare hours that they got were filled up with lectures about Political and Cultural Teaching.
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10. Propaganda - youth
The activities at all levels put across in propaganda films
Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of the Will
Contains scenes showing fun of life in a camp as well as scale of numbers involved
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