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Essay / The Hitler Youth Organization - 866
From the time Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, to the time Germany surrendered to the Allied forces and Hitler committed suicide in 1945; Germany's future is now heavily invested in the hands of younger generations. The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization established in 1926. It offered children excitement, adventure, and new heroes to idolize. Hitler admired young children's dynamism, energy and deep love for Germany. He recognized these qualities and incorporated them into his plan to control the future world, but the real question is why did Adolf Hitler choose children for his future? The education and lack of education in independent thinking that instilled the ideology that brainwashed the Hitler-Jugend and ultimately led some to the grave. Throughout this article, you will gain knowledge about the Hitler Youth; the history of the organization, the education followed by young people and military engagement towards the end of the Second World War. The Hitler Youth was a Nazi Party organization that was officially established on the Second Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) on July 4. , 1926; Kurt Gruber was the leader. The Hitler Youth was made up of three sections, two for boys and one for girls. The Hitler Jugend proper (HJ) for young men aged 14 to 18, the section for young boys, the Deutsches Jungvolk (German Youth) for those aged 10 to 14. And the section for girls from 10 to 18 years old, the Bund Deutscher Madel (the league of German Girls). 1933 is the year that changes the future of the HJ. Hitler was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933 and officially took office in March 1933. Hitler then dissolved more than 400 youth groups and encouraged youth from the canceled groups to join the HJ. Due to demolition by Hitler...... middle of paper ...... 7.5 million German boys and girls belonging to the HJ. In August 1940, Arthur Axman became the new leader of the HJ; he was much stricter in matters of directives and activities than Baldur von Schirach; who became Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Austria. The young HJs were ordered to act more like adult Nazis than before. They were trained to be the elite of their generation; they were to be the future of Germany. The training of the future elite was ensured by a three-level system: first the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt or Napola which is the national institution of political education and the Adolf Hitler schools. Secondly, the Ordensburgen, the castles of the brotherhood, and finally the Hohe Schulen, the higher schools. This was the ultimate form of brainwashing as young boys were taken from their parents' homes at a very young age and became young Hitler soldiers...