Hitler's Other Victims

Term Paper # 104074

Child, Youth Issues
History > European - World Wars
Holocaust Studies

This paper explores how the young German people were essentially robbed of their youth by Hitler.

1,316 words () | 10 sources | MLA | 2006 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the education system in Germany just prior to and during WWII was very much controlled by the German party and describes how schools would feed constant propaganda to the students. The paper relates that membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory for all teenagers and it would ultimately prepare the youths to become future Nazi leaders. The paper reveals that these teenagers would be used for the war effort, with thousands either left dead or wounded. The paper stresses how these young impressionable minds were faced with propaganda and caught up, unknowingly, in Hitler's fanaticism.

From the Paper:

"The early youth movement was part of the German Workers' Party which was founded in Germany in 1919. During Hitler's imprisonment the group failed during that time. Other groups were formed, but a large common unit did not exist. Other units still managed to exist until "Hitler banned all independent youth groups in 1933", Cassidy writes. (Cassidy, 1998) Hein furthers states that "In 1931, Baldur von Schirach was appointed Reich Youth Leader and one of his primary goals was to unify all of the different Nazi youth organizations." (Hein, 2005) The most common synonym for the Hitler Youth group after this period was Hitler-Jugend often referred to with just two letter, HJ."

Sample of Sources Used:

Bytwerk, Randall. "The Ceremony of the Hitler Youth at the 1936 Nuremberg Party Rally", 1998http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pt36hj.htm
Cassidy, Andrew. "The Early Years: 1901-1920 The Youth Movement" 1998http://www.aip.rg/history/heisenberg/p04_text.htm
Fischel, Jack. "The purpose of the Hitler Youth movement" 2005http://www.weeklystandard.com/utilites/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=5157&R
Frabotta, Kyle. "The Mindset of the Hitler-Jugend", June 2004http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/KFrabottaHitlerYouth046.htm
Gerhard, Rempel. "Hitler's Baby Division." 2002.http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses.hitler/lectures/hitlerjugend_division.html