Role of Youth Organisation in Nazi Germany :
Youth in Nazi Germany were subjected to intense Nazi ideology (hatred, aggression, violence, etc.) both in and out of school and in youth organisations which they were forced to join.
- The 10-year-olds had to join ‘Jungvolk’ and 14-year-olds ‘Hitler Youth’.
- Children were segregated from ‘undesirables’, school textbooks were rewritten and racial science introduced to justify Nazi ideas on race.
- Children were taught to be loyal, submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler. Stereotypes about Jews were popularised through various subjects and deceptive use of propaganda.
- In youth organisations, youth learned to glorify aggression, worship war, condemn democracy, and hate the ‘undesirables’.
- At 18 years, they had to join compulsory military service, were recruited into labour service and required to enroll in one of the Nazi organisations.
- The Nazi hold on the youth was total and fanatical in its makeup.