Argumentative Essay: Hitler's Youth Program

The Holocaust is debatably the most terrible event and the largest genocide in human history. During World War II when Hitler was leader of Germany Six million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis, over 1 million were children. Most deaths were in concentration camps where they were gassed, worked to death or died of decease. It wasn’t just Jews that were persecuted and sent to concentration camps, Hitler also sent Millions of other people that he didn 't like. This included Polish people, Catholics, Serbs, and disabled people. As many as 17 million innocent lives were believed to have been lost.

The Hitler Youth, also known as the Hitlerjugend, was designed specifically for young Germans who wanted to fulfill their duties to the Fatherland and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Founded in 1926, this helped Hitler gain support from children throughout the entire country. Children as young as 6, with good records could join and become apprentices. By 1933, there were 100,000 members of the Hitler Youth and by 1940, 90% of all German children were members of the organization. Children were encouraged directly, mostly through school teachers. Parent permission was not necessary, making it easier for children to join. There were different sections of the Hitler Youth, based on age. It also had several divisions much like a real army. The boys were treated much like real soldiers at Hitler Youth training camps. They practiced military marching daily, strengthened their bodies, and had their hair shaved in military

During the time of Adolf Hitler, many young German Kids were forced to join the Hitler Youth. Teachers pressured the German students into joining the Hitler Youth program, In “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow,” author Susan Campbell Bartolletti discussed the ways Adolf Hitler used education to further Nazi ideals. To make young Germans into good Nazis, Hitler changed the textbooks and the curriculum, so that it only taught Nazi approved ideas. Hitler also made the German students pledge to him every single day, by saying, “Heil Hitler” to a poster of him and a Nazi flag. Hitler and the Nazis also forced teachers to teach the Nazi ideas to make sure that every German student would grow up to be a good Nazi.

“Young boys were organized into the Deutches Jungvolk (German Young People, informally called Pimpfe), older boys into the Hitlerjugend (HJ). The Deutches Jungvolk could have boys from the ages of 10-14 and the Hitlerjugend could have boys from the ages of 14-18. When World War II started, more than ninety percent of German youth were members of these organizations. Ninety percent is a huge percentage. That means that almost every teenage German, Gentile was a member of some kind of Nazi Youth Organization. Many of these youth organization actually over rid the parental control on the children. Many were told that the individual or the family was less important than the state. If children had disloyal parents, they were encouraged to report them. When the boys weren’t in school or at home with their parents, they were with their youth organization learning military maneuvers and different chants. An example of the one the chants that the Hitler Youth used to march around chanting are: “Comrades, we march to the field, red today, tomorrow dead, Comrades it must be that way.” If the boys made any achievement in the Hitler Youth, credit in school would be given to the student. The teacher must respect the authority of the youth leaders, regardless of their age or attitude towards them. Blind obedience seems to be a common theme. Children are taught these ideologies without knowing the true real reason. Teachers are forced to believe and follow these ideologies if they wish to

Action. Fun. Adventure. These were the things promised to children as young as ten, who were lured by Hitler Youth and BDM organizations. By training the children rigorously and implementing Nazi Germany’s core beliefs in them, Hitler formed future Nazi citizens that would be willing to sacrifice their lives for him and the Third Reich. In 1920, Hitler approved the founding of Hitler Youth which modeled a previous youth group who distinguished themselves through clothing and such, wanting to reconnect Germans with the land ( Lisciotto). The brainwashing of Germany’s children through the use of Hitler Youth programs was unethical: it was created to mold children into perfect Nazi citizens, implementing a deep sense of racial superiority taught by teachers: infusing deep hatred for anything the Nazis considered a threat to Germany, and due to Hitler Youth teachings of reporting adults who were not law-abiding citizens, it led to children reporting their parents out of duty to the Third Reich.

In the article Teens against Hitler by Lauren Tarshis, there is a young boy named Ben Kamm who faced discrimination and prejudge because he was Jewish due to the bigotry of anti-Semitists. Spite what others would call him, he would walk it off and disregard their ignorant scorn. He would soon spiral down into a grimmer world. During this time, World War Two was taking place; Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany and plans the annihilation of European Jews: the Holocaust. Hitler used Jewish people as a scapegoat to Germany’s issues and this lead to vandalization of Jewish property and businesses. The Nazi party persecuted Jews, sending them to labor, death camps, or forcing them into ghettos. Kamm and his family were forced into a ghetto in

Young people were very paramount to Nazi Germany in order to preserve Hitler’s ideals to the posterity. Hans Schemm, the leader of the Nazi Teachers’ League, stated, ‘those who have youth on their side control the future’. Therefore, Nazi Germany went to many lengths by utilizing youth programs and controlling education in order to achieve the loyalty of the youth. Nazi youth organizations were governed by two basic intentions: to train boys for war and girls for motherhood. The most recognized youth organization was known as Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth was created to educate and train male youth in Nazi principles. According to Britannica.com, on a German male’s 10th birthday, he was registered and investigated (especially for “racial purity”) and, if qualified, inducted into the Deutsches Jungvolk (“German Young People”). At age 13 the youth became eligible for the Hitler Youth, from which he was graduated at age 18. Throughout these years he lived a Spartan life of dedication, fellowship, and Nazi conformity, generally with minimum parental guidance. From age 18 he was a member of the Nazi Party and served in the state labor service and the armed forces until at least the age of 21. Furthermore, in these youth organizations there was persistent activity and competition; through this,

Hitler believed that the future of Nazi Germany was the children. He set up a program to educate the children the way he wanted. The Hitler Youth had teaching schemes to fill the youth's minds with Nazi Germany. Before Hitler came into power, the kids could avoid doing things for Hitler Youth if they

First of all, young children, especially Jewish children, should learn about the unpleasant events that occurred in the past. “The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.” says Tim Holden, a former U.S. Representative. Children need to know that what the Nazi’s did was wrong and disturbing, and teaching students about this subject will teach to not repeat the past, to not reiterate such a horrible occurrence.

“The future of the German nation depends on its youth and the German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties”

"Donald Trump is Hitler". This is a popular saying amongst those who oppose Donald Trump as president. Some people say that Trump's political stances resemble those of Adolf Hitler. Although the statement is agreeable, at the time of Hitler's rule there were citizens that loved him. To that group, he was probably the best leader to have ever ruled. His politics did harm a lot of people, but they also helped many more. The mindset of the group that supported Hitler is the one that Americans should have when they are voting. It is the mindset of personal gain. Hitler helped many non Jewish Germans obtain jobs. He believed that supermarkets were bad for small, local businesses, so he did away with them. He restored the pride that Germany had

Most everyone reflects on and thinks of the Holocaust as a horrifying, heartless slaughter of the Jews. The Holocaust can be a very hard, depressing issue to discuss but it is a major part of history and cannot be ignored. The Holocaust affected countless numbers of people in the past and it continues to affect many to this day. The Jewish population was the population that most affected the most through the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had way too much power and he used that position of excessive power to nearly destroy the Jews.

The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history which ended many innocent Jewish lives. Six million Jews plus many more were completely wiped out due to the effects of the Holocaust. It is still unforgivable for the things the Nazi party did and is still a very questionable subject on how they were able to accomplish such devastation. To be able to organize the removal of an entire population of people based on their religion not only takes high intelligence, but most of all takes a very twisted and demented outlook on life. Learning about the holocaust and the people involved is very important, as well as how it has affected our world today. There are many very fascinating things about the holocaust but three

From the time Adolf Hitler came into office in 1933, up to the time when Germany surrendered to the Allied forces and Hitler committed suicide in 1945; the future for Germany became strongly invested in the hands of the younger generations. The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization formed in 1926. It gave kids excitement, adventure and new heroes to idolize. Hitler admired young kids drive, energy and strong love for Germany. He recognized these qualities and made it part of his plan to control the future world but the real question is why did Adolf Hitler pick children for his future? The education and the lack of schooling in independent thinking that instilled the ideology that brainwashed the Hitler- Jugend and eventually led

The Success of Nazi Policies Toward Education and Youth Hitler and the Nazi party had a range of policies to control education and the German youth. This was mainly to ensure loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi party. Some believed in these policies and other did not but it was fear and glory and the fear of social inadequacy that made most comply. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to control the education system and youth by controlling the teachers, pupils and the curriculum.