Imagine a life, minus 18 years. Losing what could be a quarter of a lifetime, would change anyone drastically. Before and During World War II, Hitler and the Nazi party held what would be called a Nazi youth group. These groups would manipulate children and teenagers into following there ways, to form the future of Germany. Abuse of the German youth is a direct result of forcibly joining Hitler Youth groups, being forced to act and think a specific way, and the mental and physical trauma they suffered in Hitlers pursuit for power.
Joining youth groups, as harmless as this may sound, it is nothing of the sort. Youth groups where cruel and distroyed the life of many children. Nazi youth groups where hardly known before Adolf Hitler came to power.
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In 1933, when the Nazi party came into power, the number jumped to a little over 2 million. Adolf Hitler believed that having youth groups was needed to insure the support of entire genrations that had been thaught the way to be a loyal supporters of Nazi views. This would also guarantee him a future for the Nazi party in Germany. In December of 1936, the youth of Germany was forced by law to join and follow the Nazi way. This law applied to all boys and girls aged 10 or older. With this law put into action, in 1940 there was well over 8 million members. Boys and girls where sepperated into different groups. 6-10 years old for boys meant you joined the Little Fellows, from 10-13 you joined the German Young People, form 14-18 joined the Hitler Youth. Now for girls, aged 10-14 you would join the Young Maidens, from 14-21 they joined the League of German Maidens. During this part of there life, boys would be taught the way of war. They would learn …show more content…
This is what it would have been to have lived in Germany during the years 1936-1945, possibly even longer if you take into consideration the time it took for Germany to come back from there loss. Boys and girls starting as young as 6 were instructed on what Hitler belived was right. With Adolf Hitler as a role model, the minds of children quickly became clouded with misslead thoughts and ideals. They were forced to trust and believe anything told to them, the following sentence can be used as an exemple. Anyone of Jewish descente is dispicaple. Amoung many things they were taught anti-semitism. Anti-semitism is defined as prejudice, hatred, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. The lives of German children were stolen and changed for the worse. From a poster used for the League of German Maidens "Jedes Mädchen gehört uns" this translates to "Every girl belongs to us". Another poster used for the German Young People and the Young Maidens "Jugend Dient der Leiter" a direct translation to english "Youth Serves the Leader". Therefore, it can be said that a child or teenager in Germany during this time period had no say on how to live his or her life, it was the youth groups who decided for
Proselytism, or the act of forcing beliefs onto others in an attempt to convert them, is exceptionally prominent during teenage years, but continues to prevail as the years advance. Propaganda used before the Holocaust convinced teenagers to join auxiliary groups like the Student’s League and Hitler Youth. Hitler convinced adults to join auxiliary groups as well, apart from the main Nazi party. Behaviors established as the norm in such groups were spread throughout all of Germany and eventually became common conduct. Each account in Voices of the Holocaust supports the idea that the Holocaust was caused by the Nazi party’s overall ignorance due to wrongful
In The Boy Who Dared, Helmuth dared to speak out for what he believed in even if it meant walking into the hands of death. Helmuth decided to spread his views on the way the Nazi Party deceived and manipulated the Germans. The Nazi Party started indoctrinating the youth of Nazi Germany by teaching the Nazi ideology at a very young age. One major ways Hitler did this was through the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth was founded in the 1920’s. The main goal of this organization was to eliminate the inferior and strengthen the youth. In Hitler’s words, “The weak must be chiseled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp’s steel.” (“Hitl...
Righteous Acts Throughout humanity, human beings have been faced with ethnic hardships, conflict, and exclusion because of the battle for authority. Hence, in human nature, greed, and overall power consumes the minds of some people. Groups throughout the world yearn for the ability to be the mightiest. These types of conflicts include ethnic shaming, racial exclusion, physical and verbal abuse, enslavement, imprisonment, and even death. Some of these conflicts were faced in all parts of Europe and the Pacific Region during World War II.
Hitler Youth was an organization that Hitler created for young children and teenagers of Germany to join to help him create solutions to Germany’s problems. In order to become a part of the Hitler Youth, one had to provide the proof that they were not in any way, shape, or form have a Jewish ancestry. This organization also gave some children an opportunity to rebel against their parents views of how the Hitler Youth organization was too militaristic for them. The main character in this book is named Sophie Scholl. Sophie was a German girl who had joined the Hitler Youth organization at a young age and was excited to meet new friends and learn new tactics on how to fight in the
The setting was perfect as the people of Germany were primed and ready for any leader that would tickle their ears with what they were wanting to hear. World War I was over (#4) and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. A good portion of the youth in Germany were raised in fatherless homes. In an article written by Dr. Alice Hamilton, she says this about Hitler's youth: "They were children during the years of the war when the food blockade kept them half starved, when fathers were away at the front and mothers distracted with the effort to keep their families fed. They came to manhood in a country which seemed to have no use for them. Even compulsory military training was no more and there was nothing to take its place" (Perry et. al 358). Hitler, being the sleazy opportunist that he was, capitalized on this state of affairs. In ways that were not politically correct, he was able to influence this segment of the population and hold them in allegiance to his agenda. "Hitler made each insignificant, poverty stricken, jobless youth of the slums feel himself as of the great of the earth, since the youth was a German, a Nordic, far superior to the successful Jew who was driven out of office and counting house to make place for the youth and his like" (Perry et. al 359). The following is an example of how Hitler coerced and manipulated people and how we as managers and leaders can learn from his mistakes. This essay will also address how we can effectively influence people and earn their loyalty. In order to effectively influence peopl...
The life of a child in the 1930-1940 was not an easy life not if you were a Nazi, not if you were Jewish. These Children lost their childhood because of a war. Their shattered childhood creates stories that seem horrific to us today. Life as a child growing up in a Nazi family is probably easier than dealing with the problems that the Jewish children have. However, every Nazi child had to sign up for the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth was an organization to discipline young minds and preach to them about anti semitism. Hitler Youth was one of the largest youth groups in Europe at the time if parents did not have their children in it they would face fines or have charges of imprisonment. The Nazi regime brainwashed the kids, they made them aggressive and intolerable. In the group there was even a small ‘Gestapo’ that would make sure all the children were doing the correct task if not the ‘Gestapo’ would report this. This shows how much power the children were given. During the 1940s more boys were recruited to join the army or guard concentration camps and ghettos. When the allied forces surrounded Germany the Nazi’s decided everyone of he age of fifteen and above would have to fight the war. They would be given rigorous training,
“The future of the German nation depends on its youth and the German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties”
The main purpose of the book was to emphasize how far fear of Hitler’s power, motivation to create a powerful Germany, and loyalty to the cause took Germany during the Third Reich. During the Third Reich, Germany was able to successfully conquer all of Eastern Europe and many parts of Western Europe, mainly by incentive. Because of the peoples’ desires and aspirations to succeed, civilians and soldiers alike were equally willing to sacrifice luxuries and accept harsh realities for the fate of their country. Without that driving force, the Germans would have given up on Hitler and Nazism, believing their plan of a powerful Germany...
Jewish emancipation in Germany dates from 1867 and became law in Prussia on July 3, 1869. Despite the fact the prominence which Jews had succeeded in gaining in trade, finance, politics, and literature during the earlier decades of the century, it is from the brief rise of liberalism that one can trace the rise of the Jews in German social life. For it is with the rise of liberalism which the Jews truly flourished. They contributed to its establishment, benefited from its institutions, and were under fire when it was attacked. Liberal society provides social mobility, which led to distaste among those who had acquired some place in a sort of a hierarchy. Although many were, not all anti-Semites were anti-liberal, but most anti-Semites opposed Liberalism’s whole concept of human existence, which provides much equality.
The boys and girls that were German citizens and healthy at the age of 10 - 18 years were required to join the Hitler Youth program. The boys from the age of 10 - 13 were put in the German Young people and then once they were 14 they would be in the Hitler Youth until 18. They both did a wide range of physical activities from biking, swimming, to even doing religious practice. The boys were to trained to become the best soldiers they can be for Germany, and also taught business skills. The were also taught how to shoot, boxing, and fighting. The boys could 60 meters in twelve seconds. Also the boys were required to enlist in the armed forces once they come of age. When the time came for the Youth to fight, the kids were fearless and did not fear death and people on the opposing team did not want to kill the kids. The girls of Germany where to be the mothers of Germany. They were supposed to provide a lot of “perfect Aryan” kids for Germany and they were also taught good homemaking skills. They also did camping and other physical activities. Some girls were “accidently” put in the boys cabin, and some of the girls came back pregnant as that type of stuff was actually
Regine Donner, a famous Holocaust survivor, once said, “I had to keep my Jewishness hidden, secret, and never to be revealed on penalty of death. I missed out on my childhood and the best of my adolescent years. I was robbed of my name, my religion, and my Zionist idealism” (“Hidden Children”). Jewish children went through a lot throughout the Holocaust- physically, mentally, and emotionally. Life was frightening and difficult for children who were in hiding during the rule of Adolf Hitler.
... separate division for girls. The League of German Girls is formed to guide young girls into their roles as women. To become good wives to their husbands and to raise children. Their slogan was Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, and church). Though the part about church was not part of the League of German Girls creed, it was purely for public relations. (INSERT CITATION) “Girls had to be able to run 60 metres in 14 seconds, throw a ball 12 metres, complete a 2 hour march, swim 100 metres and know how to make a bed.”(INSERT CITATION) Later on during WW2 some of the girls went to fight in the Nazi’s last defense in Berlin, but is had been determined that they were never cleared to do so (INSERT CITATION). Another department that came to be at the meeting was a news service set up to produce propaganda to combat the “Jewish monopoly of news.” (INSERT CITATION)
The Success of Nazi Policies Toward Education and Youth Hitler and the Nazi party had a range of policies to control education and the German youth. This was mainly to ensure loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi party. Some believed in these policies and other did not but it was fear and glory and the fear of social inadequacy that made most comply. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to control the education system and youth by controlling the teachers, pupils and the curriculum.
Centuries later and the name Adolf Hitler still rings volumes till this present day: discussed in history books, talked about amongst intellects and commoners alike, and despised by many for years to come. Upon hearing his name many may think of all the negative things Hitler has done, but few fail to analyze just how one man created such controversy amongst a nation without being stopped. The question then lies how does a man reign over country and devastate it for years to come? Adolf Hitler, a man who excelled in persuasion and charisma was able to reign over Germany for years. Born in Austria April 20th 1889, Hitler grew up with many hardships in his life.
the children. To get people on your side you need to get them on your