Hitler Youth Propaganda

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Hitler Youth Propaganda

• He alone who owns the youth, gains the Future!

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Todays Boys and Girls are Tomorrows Soldiers

• 1930s Adolf Hitler trained and turned the youth
  in Germany into good Nazis
• Children marched through the street and
  terrorized townspeople
• Learned how to fight and advocated for Hitler
• Tattle tales Turned their backs on those who
  did not uphold Nazi agenda (even their own
  parents!)

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• Hitler knew the minds of children could be
  shaped like clay.
• "If an adult says 'I will not come over to your
• side' I will calmly answer 'your child belongs to
  us already.' What are you? You will pass on!"

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• The Big Father
• He took over their upbringing, education and
  leisure time
• He warned parents that interference or failure
  to cooperate would
• result in imprisonment or having their children
  sent to other Nazi homes to be reared.

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• He wrecked the German school system
• He cared nothing about reading, writing or
  arithmetic
• I do not want an intellectual education. I want
  young people who will grow up to frighten the
  world... arrogant,
• violent, unafraid, cruel youth who must be able
  to suffer pain.
• Nothing tender and weak must be left in them."

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• Schools were turned into Nazi training centres
  all courses were Nazi-fied
• Jewish teachers and professors were fired
• Some students were so brainwashed that they
  turned on their anti-Nazi parents
• Brainwashing..

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A Typical School Scene in Nazi Germany

• - At the front of the class, a picture of Hitler.
• - Salute the picture at least 10 times a day
• - Lunch Prayer to the Fueher thanking him for
  the food
• - Teachers had to swear to make students into
  Nazis (under oath).
• MEIN KAMPF

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Youth Groups
Hitler Youth boys 6 18 - After 1936, all
boys had to be a part of the organization. -
They attended military camps trained to be
soldiers, studied the Nazi philosophy and swore
an oath to Hitler. - "Blood and Honour" upon
graduation and a diploma from the Hitler youth
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• League of German Maidens - girls 10-18
• - They wore uniforms, went backpacking on long
  marches and learned survival techniques.
• Proper Nazi mothers
• It is your duty to bear children for the
  fatherlands! The Fueher wills it! Marriage is
  unimportant'
• As a result many young teenagers became mothers

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Anti-Jewish Views

• Hitler blamed the Jews for many of Germany's
  social problems. 
• Jewish families "shown the door" in his society.
• Jews and their families were made to take the
  blame for any problems that Germany faced
• Public persecutions helped Hitler to control his
  youth.

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Key Points in Hitler Youth Propaganda

1. Hitler used his image as a father figure
2. Hitler used an organized program to keep the kids
   occupied
3. Hitler made certain that children were kept as
   ignorant as possible
4. Hitler used the Jews as a focus of blame
5. Hitler used a propaganda program
6. Hitler wrote books and other propaganda materials
   to promote his views