The Nature and Purpose of the Hitler Youth Movement

The Nature and Purpose of the Hitler Youth Movement

The Nazis wanted to secure total loyalty from Germanys’ young people

to do this Hitler encouraged them to join youth organisations.

However, by the end of 1933 all youth clubs were banned this was

because Hitler wanted all young people to join his Hitler Youth

organisation. The organisation was set up in 1930, before Hitler came

into power, there were just over 100,000 members. By the end of 1939,

there were over 8 million children in the Hitler youth. The Hitler

youth was set up to prepare the children for the future. It was meant

so that the girls would be prepared for their future in looking after

children and cooking. The boys side of the Hitler youth was to prepare

them for the armed forces. All German boys joined at the age of six

and German girls joined at the age of 10. Children were so important

to Hitler because they were Germanys future he needed them on his

side. There were 5 organisations to join, 3 for the boys and 2 for the

girls. They were the Pimpfen, The Jungvolk, The Hitlerjugden,

theJungmadel and the Bund Deutsch Madchen.

The purpose of the Hitler youth for boys was to teach them the

military skills they would need for later life. There were a number of

things the boys did to try to improve these skills. The contributor to

these skills were the Military training. For the Military training

they practisedcamping skills and fighting. They also practised digging

Dug Outs and trenches.All these skills would be essential for later

Nazi life. They also put all these skills into practised when they

played war games. Instead of using blank rounds though they got given

live rounds to shoot with.

The boys also went on summer camps which they took very seriously. On

one occasion a fourteen year old sentry standing guard at the entrance

of a camp shot a ten year old boy who could not remember the password.

In camp they trained for the military life, hey did drill, military