The intent was to breed "perfect" little Germans. The Nazis tried to inbreed hatred while instilling national "pride" in children. This was an attempt to conform the children and was really only brainwashing them. Hitler youth were used by the Nazis to spy on and report enemies of the state.
Did the children in Britain have to join a youth group?
By the age of 10, little boys joined Hitler Youth or Hitler Jugend.
The Hitler youth affected the German history more than it did the global history. It took decades for those youth to get all that indoctrination of Nazism out of their minds and hearts. Many thought Hitler was their savior and he had let them down and they hated the allied forces. Some became neo-nazis.
You could be any religion except Jewish. Most Germans are Catholics or Lutherans.
they let Hitler make an army, they let Germany make a transportation system for troops, allowed Germany to join austria and they let Hitler anex other countrys
All youth age 14 or older in Germany were required by Hitler to be enrolled Hitler Youth. Joseph Ratzinger was conscripted but refused to attend meetings.
Did the children in Britain have to join a youth group?
All youth in Germany were automatically enrolled in Hitler's youth group. Benedict rarely attended meetings and dropped out.
By the age of 10, little boys joined Hitler Youth or Hitler Jugend.
In Nazi Germany at the age of 5 all boys had to join the PIMPFEN which a younger section of the Hitler Youth. Rather like cubs scouts today
No. Some Germans were against the Nazis beliefs, such as sending their kids off to join the Hitler Youth, but had little power to change it.
Hitler banned other youth parties/organisations and ensured throughout the German school system there was phyiscal and verbal pressure to join from fellow peers.
The Hitler youth affected the German history more than it did the global history. It took decades for those youth to get all that indoctrination of Nazism out of their minds and hearts. Many thought Hitler was their savior and he had let them down and they hated the allied forces. Some became neo-nazis.
The exact number of members of the Hitler Youth organization varies, depending on the source. However many sources agree that there were at least 2,300,000 members in 1933. By 1936 there were more than five million members, and by 1940 there were more than 8 million members. The members were children as young as 10 up to teenagers, almost all of Germany's teenagers being members.
He was in WW1 and fought in the army as an enlisted man.
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At the age of 14 all boys in Nazi Germany were automatically enrolled in the Hitler Youth group which meant that young Ratzinger was a member. However, he never attended meetings. Later he was drafted into the army and was assigned to the anti aircraft group. He deserted his post and returned home.