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 …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