Imagine you are a thirteen year old growing up in Germany, 1938. Some of the kids at school are talking about a new program called the Hitlerjugend (or Hitler Youth). It sounds fun and exciting with its camping trips and home meetings so you decide to join. The Hitlerjugend is just as fun and exciting as it sounded and as the years pass you gain new skills; loyalty to Hitler and German; and growing hatred for Jews, Blacks, the handicapped, and other “burdens of the state”. To you this is simply a
When it first started in 1922 it had the name Jungsturm, which was changed to Hitlerjugend by 1926. Many smaller sections divided up the organization. Bund Deutscher Mädel was a league for girls, NS-Schulerbund was for Nazi students, and Duetshes Jugvolk was for German children from age ten to fourteen (Gutman, pg. 677). Hitler’s main