Hitler Youth: Timeline and Organization Info. Beginnings to 1923 April 20, 1889 - Adolf Hitler is born in Austria.November 9, 1918 - The Weimar Republic is proclaimed in Germany.November 11, 1918 - World War I ends with Germany defeated.June 28, 1919 - Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles.September 1919 - Hitler joins the German Workers' Party.April 1, 1920 - Hitler renames the German Workers' Party as the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party.March 1922 - Hitler proclaims the first Nazi Party youth group.November 8, 1923 - Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch ends in failure.
He is soon sent to prison. Jungvolk Oath (taken by ten-year-old boys on first entering the Hitler Youth) "In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God. " Pledge of Allegiance "I promise to do my duty in love and loyalty to the Führer and our flag. " Hitler Youth: Beginnings to 1923. Before the Nazi Party was founded, a strong youth movement already existed in Germany.
It began in the 1890s and was known as the Wandervögel, a male-only movement featuring a back-to-nature theme. Wandervögel members had an idealistic, romantic notion of the past, yearning for simpler days when people lived off the land. They rejected the modern, big city era and took a dim view of its predecessor, the industrial revolution, which had been started by their fathers and grandfathers. They scorned greed and materialism, and the new emerging corporate mentality. They found strict German schooling oppressive and rejected parental authority. Terms of use: Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place. Hitler Youth: Prelude to War 1933-1939. On the night of January 30, 1933, Nazis in Berlin celebrated the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany by conducting massive torchlight parades.
Hitler Youth units were among those in the columns passing under the watchful gaze of Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg, the elderly president of Germany. Within two months, Hitler acquired dictatorial powers resulting from the Enabling Act passed by the Nazi-controlled Reichstag. Hitler's acquisition of power meant the Hitler Youth and all other Nazi organizations now had the official power of the State on their side. The period of Nazi Gleichschaltung (forced coordination) immediately began in which all German institutions and organizations were either Nazified or disbanded. Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach now sought to eliminate all 400 of the other competing youth organizations, large and small, throughout Germany. Hitler Youth: Hitler's Boy Soldiers 1939-1945.
On September 1st, 1939, Hitler's armies invaded Poland.
Six years of war would follow with the full participation of the Hitler Youth eventually down to the youngest child. At the onset of war, the Hitler Youth totaled 8.8 million. But the war brought immediate, drastic changes as over a million Hitler Youth leaders of draft age and regional adult leaders were immediately called up into the army. This resulted in a severe shortage of local and district leaders. The problem was resolved by lowering the age of local Hitler Youth leaders to 16 and 17. Terms of use: Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed of any text, graphics, photos, audio clips, other electronic files or materials from The History Place. Hitler's Children. Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang is a 1977 book about the West German militant left-wing group, the Red Army Faction (also known as The Baader-Meinhof Gang), by the British author Jillian Becker.
Note that neither the 1943 or 2012 films were on this subject. The first edition was published in June 1977 by J. B. Lippincott & Co. It recounts the deeds of the group up to the suicides of Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader. The book chronicles the group and provides a brief biography of the main members, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, and also describes Ulrike Meinhof's life leading up to her terrorist career. [edit] Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow - Introduction and Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. Hitler Youth: Timeline and Organization Info.
How did the Nazis control leisure? - Key Stage 3 - The Holocaust Explained. Strength Through Joy The Nazi Party established control even over leisure time.
Physical fitness was at the core of Nazi philosophy. Compulsory deductions were made from workers’ wages to pay for the ‘Strength through joy’ programme. Two cruise liners were built to take workers on holidays. In addition the Nazi government financed sports facilities and provided theatre visits for its good, hardworking workers. Workers could pay five marks a month towards the ownership of a people’s car (Volkswagen), which they were told they would receive ‘at some point’ in the future. Hitler Youth: Chapter Index. Above – Hitler Youths perform in the Hour of Commemoration in front of the town hall in Tomaszow, occupied Poland in 1941.
Their flags bear the ancient Germanic Sig-Rune 'S' symbolic of victory. "My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Related Audio Clips (Windows Audio Format) The Fahnenlied (Banner Song) written by Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, is sung here by Berlin Hitler Youth members, ending with the final refrain... Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran (Our banner flutters before us) Unsere Fahne ist die neue Zeit (Our banner represents the new era) Und die Fahne führt uns in die Ewigkeit!
Translation: "It is our wish and will that this State and this Reich shall endure in the millenniums to come. Translation: "We do not want this nation to become soft. Hitler Youth Movement. The Hitler Youth was a logical extension of Hitler's belief that the future of Nazi Germany was its children.
The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important to a child as school was. In the early years of the Nazi government, Hitler had made it clear as to what he expected German children to be like: