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Who were the Hitler youth?

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It was an organization for boys and young men. You did not HAVE to belong, but, it was safer to join, for your family. The HY had many activities for young people, emphasizing physical fitness, and activities in which skills useful in a military context were learned, such as camping, hiking, map reading. There was a heavy dose of Nazi political brainwashing, and some of the most fanatical Nazis were produced from this system. There was an entire SS division, the 12th I believe, that was the "Hitler Youth" division, which was particularly noted for its savage ferocity and barbarity by Allied troops, appalled at this from the fuzzy cheeked boys of the "baby division". The companion organization for girls was the BDM - Bund Deutsche Madel.

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The Hitler Youth were young boys ages 10-14 who studied the Nazi ideas during WWII.

The Hitler Youth were boys and girls who wanted to become Nazis and help them to come to power, rule the world. They would train in camps to be Nazis. When they were old enough they would become Nazi.

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The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, HJ) started life as the youth organisation of the Nazi party. It was founded in March 1922 as Jugendbund der NSDAP, (Youth Association of the NSDAP), and was broken down into "Jungmannschaften" (ages 14- 16) and the "Jungsturm Adolf Hitler" (ages 16-18). The latter was directly subordinate to the SA and was, in effect, its youth organisation.

At the beginning of 1933, the HJ had around 108,000 members. Once in power the Nazis began a huge drive to encourage youths to join the HJ, and later that year, forced other youth organisations to be absorbed into the HJ (Gleichschaltung = forced conformity) or voluntarily liqiudate. Very soon, the only youth organisation in Germany was the HJ and at its height, had over 8.5 million members. Children who did not join the HJ were treated as outsiders, civil servants were obliged to enroll their children in the organisation. The Nazis attempts to forcefully incorporate the youth organisations of the evangelical churches backfired when they simply voluntarily wound themselves up.

The national socialist state saw itself as the embodiment of a "youthful" Germany, and saw in Germany's youth the most important element in shaping a politico-military future. The objective of the HJ was to prepare the youth for their role as a racial elite, teach them to despise and eradicate anything weak and prepare them for war.

Hitler expressed his ideals of German youth in his book Mein Kampf, according to which, a physically and mentally pure race was to be raised, that "consciously found its way back to primitive instinct" and would fight anything that led to "effeminacy" and "subversion" of national self-assertion.

Hitler took every opportunity to announce his "educational" goals at mass rallies in propagandistic similies and in a speech before 50,000 Hitler Youths in Nuremberg on 14 September 1935 demanded that they should be "swift as greyhounds, tough as leather and hard as Krupps steel" (flink wie die Windhunde, zäh wie Leder, hart wie Kruppstahl).

The Hitler Youth was broken down as follows:

Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ), for 10- to14-year-old boys, known as Pimpfe (titches),

Jungmädelbund (JM), for 10- to 14-year-old girls,

The actual Hitlerjugend for 14- to 18-year-old boys,

Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), for 14- to 18-year-old girls (later reduced to 17 years),

BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (Faith and Beauty),for 17- to 21-year-old girls.

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Mispelled question. Poorely structured questin. Maybe you meand "Who was Hitler in his youth?" ? Well he was a painter among other things. He fought in WW I and earned an Iron Cross medal of the 1:st and 2:nd degree. ---

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Some facts on Hitler youth: balder von shirach was the overseer of the Hitler youth movement - In 1936 the total number of boys and girls in the Hitler youth was 4 million

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The Hitler Youth was created because Hitler belived and said that "if you control the young you control the future" and to control the young he created the Hitler Youth.

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ummm well hitler was a bad guy so ummm check the dictionary

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The Hitlerjugend.

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