Youth

• Nazi youth organisations

  • Young German Folk (boys aged 10-14)
  • Young Girls (girls aged 10-14)
  • Hitler Youth (boys aged 14-18)
  • League of German Maidens (girls aged 14-18)
  • Meetings and activities took place after school, at weekends and in the holidays
• Nazi aims for young people

  • To be proud Germans who supported a strong, independent Germany
  • To be loyal supporters of the Nazi Party and to believe in Nazi policies
  • Girls to be strong and healthy in order to be strong wives and fertile mothers
  • Boys to be strong and healthy in order to work for the German economy and fight in the German forces
• Youth group activities

  • Boys: military-style camps
  • Both: Hiking and camping, learning about Hitler and racial superiority, singing patriotic songs, sport and competitions, Nazi marches and rallies, reporting anti -Nazi comments
  • Girls: domestic activities to be a good wife
• Nazi control of education 1

  • All lessons began and ended with the Hitler salute
  • Nazi flags and posters decked classrooms
  • Textbooks had to be approved by the Nazi Party
  • Traditional subjects were rewritten to glorify Germany
  • Racial ideas and anti-Semitism were embedded within subjects
• Nazis policies in schools 2

  • It was compulsory for teachers to be Nazi Party members
  • Teachers' camps taught them how to use Nazi ideas in their teaching
  • Nearly all teachers joined the Nazi Teachers League
  • Teachers were forced to attend courses to learn about Nazi ideas
  • 15% of time was spent on PE
  • New subjects: Race Studies and Nazi Eugenics were taught to both sexes