Youth

• Hitler Youth


  Youth organization set up in 1922, made compulsory by 1936 youth law to educate children according to Nazi principles
• Catholic groups were banned
• Baldur von Schirach


  Leader of the Hitler Youth
• By 1938 the Hitler Youth had 7 million members
• What the Hitler Youth taught

  • How to be mothers (for German maidens)
  • Nazi principles
• The Hitler Youth was a large and influential group
• Education in the Hitler Youth

  1. Sacked Jewish teachers

  2. Hired Nazi-trained teachers

  3. Curriculum sent teachers on Nazi training, 97% joined the Nazi party