The German authorities then prohibited or dissolved competing youth organizations. By 1937 membership in the Hitler Youth increased to 5.4 million before it became mandatory in 1939. In January 1933, the Hitler Youth had approximately 100,000 members, but by the end of the year this figure had increased to more than 2 million. Millions of German young people were won over to Nazism in the classroom and through extracurricular activities. These messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of youth: dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful. the Wehrmacht will take care of that.” -Adolf Hitler (1938)įrom the 1920s onwards, the Nazi Party targeted German youth as a special audience for its propaganda messages. And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left. ![]() And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months. “These boys and girls enter our organizations ten years of age, and often for the first time get a little fresh air after four years of the Young Folk they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years.
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