Nazi Germany - Hitler Youth | HistoryOnTheNet In the early 1920s, the Nazi party had established a youth movement led by Kurt Gruber, with the aim of attracting young men who could be trained to become members of the SA (Stormtroopers). On 4th July 1926 the group was renamed the Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth and became attached to and run by the SA. The Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend) wore uniforms and attended meetings and rallies where they were indoctrinated with Nazi views. Adolf Hitler believed that the support of the youth was vital to the future of the third Reich and aimed, through the Hitler Youth programme, to produce a generation of loyal supporters of Nazi views. Posters were used to attract more members and membership rose from 5,000 in 1925 to 25,000 in 1930. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 other youth groups were forcibly merged into the Hitler Youth and by the end of 1933 membership stood at just over 2 million. There were separate Hitler Youth groups for boys and girls:
The End of Hitler's Family Line - The Pact Between the Sons of Hitler's Nephew Never to Have Children Hitler in 1918 Today I found out the fate of the survival of Hitler’s bloodline rests in the hands of just five family members: the two sons (Peter Raubal and Heiner Hochegger) of Adolf Hitler’s half-sister Angela Hitler, and the three remaining sons (Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston) of Adolf’s half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. During his life, Hitler strove for what he viewed as perfection. In any event, it’s ironical, then, that Hitler, the supposed pinnacle of “the master race”, should have his own bloodline soon to be stamped out intentionally, as undesirable. Peter Raubal was born in 1931 which makes him 82 years old today. So that leaves the Stuart-Houston brothers who range in age from 48 to 64. David Gardner, author of the book entitled, The Last of the Hitlers tracked down the surviving Hitler descendants in the late 1990s. Hitler’s Heritage and Bloodline At this point you might be wondering about Hitler’s own parentage. No father was listed on Alois’ birth certificate.
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. 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: "At your command, my Führer, stands here a youth – a youth that does not know class and caste. Translation: "We do not want this nation to become soft. Begin Reading: The History Place - Hitler Youth: Chapter 1 - Beginnings to 1923
Primary History - World War 2 Pearl Harbor - World War II The Japanese plan was simple: Destroy the Pacific Fleet. That way, the Americans would not be able to fight back as Japan’s armed forces spread across the South Pacific. On December 7, after months of planning and practice, the Japanese launched their attack. At about 8 a.m., Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor. In all, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor crippled or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. But the Japanese had failed to cripple the Pacific Fleet. 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. 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] The Boston Globe called this book "the definitive study of the Baader- Meinhof gang".[1] In a review in the New York Times, Stephen Spender wrote that the book is "strong on facts and useful source material and is a good crime story" but criticized it as "turgidly written".[2] Although critical of the book's title, Klaus Vondung called the book a "penetrating study of the Red Army Faction" in his book, The Apocalypse in Germany.[3] References[edit]
Children and World War Two Children were massively affected by World War Two. Nearly two million children were evacuated from their homes at the start of World War Two; children had to endure rationing, gas mask lessons, living with strangers etc. Children accounted for one in ten of the deaths during the Blitz of London from 1940 to 1941. World War Two was the first war when Britain itself was the target of frequent attacks by the enemy. The impact of evacuation on children depended to an extent on which social strata you were in at the time. ‘Operation Pied Piper’ was a huge undertaking. ‘Operation Pied Piper’ planned to move 3.5 million children in three days. With such numbers involved, it was to be expected that some children would have a smooth passage to their reception area while some would not. What impact this had on the children involved was never overly studied at the time as the government simply wanted to herald evacuation as an overwhelming success. MLA Citation/Reference
Hitler's Children Primary History - World War 2 - Children at war Nazi concentration camps Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager, or KZ) throughout the territories it controlled. The term was borrowed from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War. The first Nazi concentration camps were erected in Germany in March 1933 immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and his NSDAP was given control over the police through Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Prussian Acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring. Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers, the camps initially held around 45,000 prisoners. Heinrich Himmler's SS took full control of the police and concentration camps throughout Germany in 1934–35. The concentration camps were administered since 1934 by Concentration Camps Inspectorate which in 1942 was merged into SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and were guarded by SS-Totenkopfverbände. Pre-war camps The Dachau camp was created for holding political opponents. World War II Internees Treatment
Plight of Jewish Children When World War II began in September 1939, there were approximately 1.6 million Jewish children living in the territories that the German armies or their allies would occupy. When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, more than 1 million and perhaps as many as 1.5 million Jewish children were dead, targeted victims in the Nazis' calculated program of genocide. As Warsaw ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum wrote in 1942, “Even in the most barbaric times, a human spark glowed in the rudest heart, and children were spared. But the Hitlerian beast is quite different. Liberation from Nazi tyranny brought no end to the sufferings of the few Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. Persecution The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany in 1933. In eastern Europe, the Nazis generally isolated Jews in ghettos, which often were established in the most desolate sections of a city or town. Death Hitler made the decision in 1941 to carry out the systematic mass murder of Jews.