Hitler Youth: The Destruction Of Their Generation's Youth

In 1933, Adolf Hitler designed a new group. He called this large group of kids “Hitler Youth”, and used them to help the rest of the nazis destroy things and create fear all over Europe. Over all, these kids, extremely young and older alike, caused much more destruction than the world thought possible of their generation’s youth. In classrooms, they taught kids that the Jews were bad and they had to eliminate them at all costs. Many German teachers aimed to produce race-conscious, obedient, self-sacrificing Germans who would be willing to die for Fuhrer and Fatherland. The German children, believing what these teachers told them, began to swear allegiance to Hitler. These adolescents pledged to serve the nation and its leader as future soldiers. In all of these classrooms, there were framed pictures of Hitler, which these kids saw as normal. Another classroom normality was many thick text books, teaching to love and praise Hitler, for they said what he was doing would make the world a better place when it was done with. Also targeting more children to join this, kids clothing was produced with writing like “I hate Jews” or “Make the world a better place, end the Jewish religion” printed on them. Racist board games and joke books were also released. Hitler targeted children to have future soldiers for his own use. As much as they were used for destruction, kids were also used to create fear. On the third of April in 1933, a large group of Hitler youth were sent into an office in Berlin by a man named Baldur Von Schirach. The employed adults working in the building were very afraid, as these kids had guns and knew how to use them. The adults trying to evade the children were told to sit back down and go back to what they were doing. All employees in the office were instructed to continue working as usual, and did so out of pure fear. After this successful attack took place, Schirach was put in control of Hitler Youth as a whole. This made Schirach feel very powerful, and so the attacks continued on. Hitler Youth was growing stronger, and with this strength gave them more of an effect on people fear wise. Although Hitler Youth was already very strong, they still wanted more power. …show more content…
Other sorts of youth groups agreed with using children in this way. After the successful attack by Schirach made a big impact, many leaders among nationalist youth groups willingly joined and submitted their kids to Hitler Youth. Although they were gaining more groups, they still were not happy. They felt as if Jewish youth groups would gain too many strong adolescents, and overpower theirs. After this thought was first announced, all Jewish communist groups were quickly disbanded by Hitler Youth themselves. Even after all of this, the Nazis still didn’t feel they were at an adequate level of power. They began pressuring Protestant groups to put their children into Hitler Youth. Under all of the pressure, the Protestants yielded. Still fearing being overpowered, other groups were made not allowed to gather at all by law. Hitler said that this law was put in place because other groups were a ‘public nuisance’. Hitler then backed down a bit. He felt as if they had more power. Since Hitler was feeling less threatened, he stopped disbanding groups. Catholic youth groups were never disbanded. Hitler allowed Catholics to stay in their groups because so many of his soldiers were religious. High ranking nazis were allowed to go to Sunday mass at a Catholic group site or a church. They often attended these. Even some of the boys in Hitler Youth who were raised as Catholics attended some form of mass or service. The boys could be seen at the altar in full uniform. Hitler did most of these things to stay liked. If the kids in Hitler Youth decided that his leading style was too strict, they may have attacked him or forcefully left Hitler Youth. Even after all of this, Hitler felt he could bring more power to his group. When he first started the group, the boys were