Motto: Blut und Ehre "Blood and Honour"
Hitler Youth, German Hitlerjugend, organization was set up for educating and training male youth in NSDAP principles. Under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach, head of all German youth programs, …
Motto: Blut und Ehre "Blood and Honour"
Hitler Youth, German Hitlerjugend, organization was set up for educating and training male youth in NSDAP principles. Under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach, head of all German youth programs, the Hitler Youth included by 1935 almost 60 percent of German boys. On July 1, 1936, it became a state agency that all young “Aryan” Germans were expected to join.
Upon reaching his 10th birthday, a German boy was registered and investigated (especially for “racial purity”) and, if qualified, inducted into the Deutsches Jungvolk (“German Young People”). At age 13 the youth became eligible for the Hitler Youth, from which he was graduated at age 18. Throughout these years he lived a spartan life of dedication, fellowship, and conformity, generally with minimum parental guidance.
The Hitler Youth was organised into local cells on a community level. Such cells had weekly meetings at which various NSDAP doctrines were taught by adult leaders. Regional leaders typically organised rallies and field exercises in which several dozen Hitler Youth cells would participate. The largest gathering usually took place annually at Nuremberg, where members from all over Germany would converge for the annual NSDAP rally.
The Hitler Youth maintained training academies comparable to preparatory schools, which were designed to nurture future NSDAP Party leaders. The Hitler Youth also maintained several corps designed to develop future officers for the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces). The corps offered specialised foundational training for each of the specific arms for which the member was ultimately destined. The Marine Hitler Youth (Marine-HJ), for example, served as an auxiliary to the Kriegsmarine. Another branch of the Hitler Youth was the Deutsche Arbeiter Jugend – HJ (German Worker Youth – HY). This organisation within the Hitler Youth was a training ground for future labor leaders and technicians. Its symbol was a rising sun with a swastika.
From age 18 he was a member of the NSDAP and served in the state labour service and the armed forces until at least the age of 21.
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