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The paper looks at how it came to be that so many of Germany's best and brightest young people could become swept up in the machinations of a hate-filled and awesomely destructive regime. In particular, the pages look at the Hitler Youth and argue that it was a state-driven organization that grew to gargantuan proportions by the dawn of the War, effectively sucking in an entire generation of German youth. The paper shows how members of the Hitler Youth were frequently very highly committed to the objectives of the Nazi government because of the deliberate integration of the Hitler Youth with the SS, the SA, and the frightfully brutal SS-Totenkopfverbande. The paper discusses how devotion to the cause was invigorated by the unhappiness among many German youth with the shortcomings and weaknesses of post-War Germany, and, many young people in Germany were well-prepared to accept the anti-Semitism inasmuch as German society as a whole was strongly anti-Semitic. Finally, the paper reveals that the Hitler Youth impressively raised the commitment level of its membership through an intensive indoctrination program that was surely among the most sophisticated seen up to that time.

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"The horrors of the Second World War - especially the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their Eastern European (and French) collaborators - will most likely never be forgotten; taken as a collective, they constitute the most gruesome catalogue of crimes in modern human history. With that in mind, the following paper will look at how it came to be that so many of Germany's best and brightest young people could become swept up in the machinations of a hate-filled and awesomely destructive regime. In particular, the ensuing pages will look at the Hitler Youth and argue that it was a state-driven organization - well-integrated with more hardened..."

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