Hitler Youth & the Holocaust Thesis

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Prior to compulsory membership the belief was that membership would serve to advance them in the world around them which was quickly evolving and on a basis of "uniformity and solidarity." (Kater, 2004) Just as in American civic organizations for youth whom enjoyed wearing "spiffy uniforms" the same can be said of the German youth. As well the satisfaction in belonging to a safe community that was dominant in the world around them and that offered protection the participation in camping, marching, and communal singing in groups was appealing to these youth and the presence of the "omniscient and omnipotent father, Adolf Hitler, who provided immense guarantees of safety at a time shaken by continued economic depression and recurrent fears of war." (Kater, 2004)

V. Bund Deutscher Madel (BMD) - the League of German Girls

Included in the Hitler Youth groups were the BDM which was established in 1930 and was the female branch of the Nazi Party's youth movement. The group's official title was the League of German Girls in the Hitler Youth (Bund Deutscher Madel in der Hitler-Jugend). In 1933 this group began a rapid expansion and compulsory membership existed for girls between the ages of 10 and 18 in 1939 and all members were Germans, German citizens and free of hereditary diseases." (Jewish Virtual Library, 2009) Baldur von Schirach ran the group until 1934 when Trude Mohr accepted the appointment to the position of BDM-Teichsreferentin" however upon her marriage in 1937 she resigned by force and was followed by Dr. Jutta Rudiger. (Jewish Virtual Library, 2009)

The BDM training programs were characterized by the appearance of freedom within society that girls had not previously experienced and included: (1) singing; (2) arts; (3) crafts; (4) theater; and (5) even fashion design and community work." (Jewish Virtual Library, 2009) These German girls were, just as in the case of German boys with membership in the Hitler Youth trained, educated, indoctrinated and then channeled directly into positions with armed forces and other Hitler-based government in Germany.

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The Nazi ideology was so ingrained into these individuals that they could not conceive of their being wrong in their beliefs which coincided with the search for the 'master race' of Hitler and the superiority a specific race of human beings and specifically the Aryan race of individuals of whom Hitler claimed ancestors on his father's side of the family and thereby claimed superiority over other races and specifically over the Jewish race to which his mother belonged.

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The strategies utilized by Adolf Hitler in his building of what would be a dictatorship were effective in setting out his philosophy, gaining adherents and training and educating the military that would protect and ensure his dictatorship and Hitler did this through empowering children and adolescents who became adept and confident as well as arrogant and loyal ultimately resulting in the Nazi army that served Hitler's dictatorship.

It is horrifying to realize that the strategies used by Hitler, while repugnant in view of his use of children and adolescents was indeed a brilliant strategic framework to institute his ideology the most effectively and with the utmost security in its continuance in a self-perpetuating machine of induction and recruitment specifically from among young children to ensure the military capability to guard the dictatorship of Germany and in feeding the ever-hungry beast of power and might of that dictatorship......

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