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HItler took kids ages 10-18 to train and become a Nazi at the beginning he only had a little over 1000. He did this so that he could have a young fresh army so if the others died he could replace them. Why did he take the kids? He started all this in 1939 and it ended in 1945.

According to “World book student” Hitler Youth had boys and girls that Hitler drafted to fight in WWII. they had to do many things in training.The boys and girls had to do many instructions that they were given. “The children of the Nazi youth movements recorded their progress in performance booklets. Nearly every activity became an individual, team, or unit competition. Activities included boys’ and girls’ sports; singing; Nazi marches; hiking and camping; and collecting materials—such as scrap metal, rubber, and
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Nelly Jordan was one of those kids growing up.“Nelly Jordan, a girl growing up under the Nazi regime. An impressionable, idealistic girl, she falls prey to the propaganda surrounding her in school, Hitler Youth, and the media. In spite of intense indoctrination and the silence maintained in her family, Nelly manages to preserve bits of her individual morality through feelings of secrecy, embarrassment, guilt, shame, pity, fear, and a pervasive sense of sadness. Still, she enthusiastically participates in the Hitler Youth and tries to please her Nazi teachers. With the misery of her family becoming refugees, the atrocities that she witnesses and hears about, and the occupation of Germany, her system of beliefs breaks down, and she has to undergo a total transformation to become a new human being.” It still was hard for some of those kids that had to live like that.

Hitler Youth was young Nazi soldiers that were ready to fight World War II. At the end he had 2,300,000 kids in Hitler Youth. So why did he have so many at the end? Well I think not much Nazi’s died until it was

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