The four organisations were the German Young People (Deutsches Jungvolk), the Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend), the League of Young Girls (Jungmadelbund) and the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Madel). Boys joined the German Young People from the age of 10 until they were 14 when they joined the Hitler Youth. The girls joined the League of Young Girls at the age of 10 and at the age of 14 joined the League of German Girls.
In 1938 there were 8,000 full-time leaders of the HJ. There were also 720,000 part-time Hitler Youth leaders, often schoolteachers, who had been trained in National Socialist principles. For boys aged between 10 and 14 years the camp set up was called the Jungvolk. The boys had to learn semaphore, arms drill, and take part in two-day cross-country hikes. They also had to learn Nazi dogma and once they passed the necessary tests they were given a special dagger marked "Blood and Honor". The main objective of the organization was to provide Adolf Hitler with loyal supporters Once girls reached the age of they could join the Jungmädel. At 14 they entered the Bund Deutscher Mädel. (German Girls' League). This included a year of farm or domestic service. They were trained by female guardians and their overall leader was Gertrud Scholtz-Klink. Education played a very important part in Nazi Germany in trying to cultivate a loyal following for Hitler and the Nazis. The Nazis were aware that education would create loyal Nazis by the time they reached adulthood. The Hitler Youth had been created for post-school activities and schools were to play a critical part in developing a loyal following for Hitler - indoctrination and the use of propaganda were a common practice in Nazi schools and the education system. Enforcing a Nazi curriculum on schools depended on the teachers delivering it. All teachers had to be vetted by local Nazi officials. All teachers had to be careful about what they said as children were encouraged to inform the authorities if a teacher said something that did not fit in with the Nazi's curriculum for schools. Subjects underwent a major change in schools. Some of the most affected were History and Biology. History was based on the glory of Germany. The German defeat in 1918 was explained as the work of Jewish and spies who had weakened the system from within. The Treaty of Versailles was the work of nations jealous of Germany's might and power. The hyperinflation of 1923 was the work of Jewish saboteurs. The national resurgence was started under the leadership of Hitler. Biology became a study of the different races to 'prove' that the Nazi belief in racial superiority was a sound belief. "Racial Instruction" started as the age of 6. Pupils were taught about the problems of heredity. Older pupils were taught about the importance of selecting the right "mate" when marrying and producing children. Geography taught pupils about the land Germany had taken away from her in 1919 and the need for Germany to have living space, and that Jews were taking up valuable space. Science had a military-slant to it. The curriculum required that the principles of shooting be studied, military aviation science, bridge building, and the impact of poisonous gasses. Girls had a different curriculum in some regards as they studied domestic science and eugenics, both of which were to prepare young girls to be the prefect mother and wife. In Eugenics, girls were taught about the characteristics to look out for in a perfect husband and father. PE became a very important part of the curriculum. Hitler had stated that he wanted boys who could suffer pain. PE took up 15% of a school's weekly timetable. Boxing became compulsory for boys. Those who failed fitness tests could be expelled from their schools - and face humiliation from those who had passed such tests. Indoctrination became rampant in all subjects. At every opportunity, teachers were expected to attack the life style of the Jews.
It was an organization for boys and young men. You did not HAVE to belong, but, it was safer to join, for your family. The HY had many activities for young people, emphasizing physical fitness, and activities in which skills useful in a military context were learned, such as camping, hiking, map reading. There was a heavy dose of Nazi political brainwashing, and some of the most fanatical Nazis were produced from this system. There was an entire SS division, the 12th I believe, that was the "Hitler Youth" division, which was particularly noted for its savage ferocity and barbarity by Allied troops, appalled at this from the fuzzy cheeked boys of the "baby division". The companion organization for girls was the BDM - Bund Deutsche Madel.
Deutsches Jungvolk, a youth organisation of the Hitler Youth for 10 - 14-year-olds, was founded in 1930. The aim of the organisation was to indoctinate young boys according to Nazi ideology.
It was the junior section of the Hitler Youth. The word is not normally translated into English.
The Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) was divided into two groups : Deutsches Jungvolk) (German Young Folk) and Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM, the League of German Girls) .
Hermann O. Pfrengle has written: 'Forget that you have been Hitler soldiers' -- subject(s): Biography, Children, Deutsches Jungvolk (Organization), German Personal narratives, Juvenile Participation, World War, 1939-1945, Youth
No. As a child he was a member of Nazi youth organizations such as Deutches Jungvolk and the Hitlerjugend (the latter being mandatory for all fit members of his generation). In 1944, he was conscripted into the German Army and became a member of the 90th Panzer Grenadier division in Italy in March 1945, but was taken prisoner at Merano by American troops before taking part in any fighting. (Information from Wikipedia)
The four organisations were the German Young People (Deutsches Jungvolk), the Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend), the League of Young Girls (Jungmadelbund) and the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Madel). Boys joined the German Young People from the age of 10 until they were 14 when they joined the Hitler Youth. The girls joined the League of Young Girls at the age of 10 and at the age of 14 joined the League of German Girls.
The Hitler Youth, under the control of originally Baldur Von Schirach who was NOT an SS member or officer. later= in mid war Artur Axmann assumed command of the Hitler Youth in l943 and from it raised the l2Th SS Panzer Division, an integral part of the militant Waffen-SS. It is not known if Herr Axmann survived the war. Von Schirach did some time in Spandau after the Nuremburg trials- but was released.
In the Third Reich, most young boys joined the "Deutsche Jungvolk" and then proceeded to the "Hitlerjugend" (HJ), while girls were part of the "Deutscher Jungmädelbund" and afterwards joined the "Bund Deutscher Mädel".Since in a fascist nation it is very hard to differ from the rest, most people had their children join these groups, which replaced all other legal youth organizations in Nazi germany. As far as i know, the HJ was kind of a mix of boy scouts, youth group and indoctrination machine.Young people learned from the very beginning of their lives to follow the ways of their leader, who in turn promised them a glorious nation of 'Aryan' people, free of any 'contamination'. The enemy stereotypes 'Jew' and 'Not german' were etched on the memory and mind of most germans, thus making it rather easy to unite them against it.Disclaimer: I am in no way antisemitic, racist or fascist. The terms in double apostrophes are the official names used by the fascist regime of the Third Reich.Since English is not my native languague, I used single apostrophes for terms that I think may offend some people in this context, so feel free to change them for more appropriate synonyms.
The youngest soldier that served in the great war (WWI) was only 13. about the same age as a yr 8 or 9 pupil in England.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The question is not specific about which World War, nor about which country. So I am going to give some thoughts about the use of boy soldiers in the German Army in 1945, which suggest that the youngest might have been EIGHT years old.REMPEL, Gerhard; Hitler's Children - The Hitler Youth and the SS; University of North Carolina Press, US; 1989 has a photograph of four boy soldiers captured by the US Army. They are in uniform and they are reported to be between eight and fourteen years old.GEHLEN, Wilhelm and GREGORY, Don; Jungvolk - The Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Third Reich; Casemate Books, UK; 2008 has the following comment from Gehlen's own experiences: "In 1943, I was 10-years-old," writes Wilhelm Gehlen, "and at the age of 10, we Jungvolk knew how to change the barrel on a 20mm gun. We loaded magazines and ran messages, often under fighter-bomber fire, between gun emplacements or the headquarters when telephone communications had been shot to ribbons."Gehlen's comments, therefore, suggest that ten year old boys were serving as soldiers.Gehlen & Gregory also have the famous picture of Hitler shaking hands with Alfred Czech at a parade on Hitler's 56th birthday in 1945 (about a week before Hitler committed suicide). Czech was twelve at the time and was receiving his Iron Cross for his service in the German Army.Lastly, there are numerous reports of boys as young as ten fighting and dying in a futile attempt to prevent the capture of the Pichelsdorf Bridge in Berlin by the Red Army in April 1945.Hope that this helps.In the First world war the youngest to serve in the british,American or french armies war only 12.In other armies it was probably less in the Russian army it was probably 11 nobody knows for sure.The austro-hungarians also had some soldiers as young as 12.All in all the kind of situation now seen in the Congo.
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The 'Hitler-Jugend' or 'HJ' ('Hitler Youth')This was the official junior section of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). In 1936 all other youth organizations, such as the Boy Scouts, were banned in Germany, and in 1939 membership was made compulsory. The under-14s had their own organization called the "Jungvolk".There was a girl's section called, somewhat oddly the 'Bund deutscher M�del' (BdM) - League of German Girls (or possibly 'lasses').The Hitler-Jugend had an official song that became enormously popular in Nazi Germany - 'Es zittern die morschen Knochen' ('The frail bones [of the elderly] tremble') ... It's best known for the lines in the refrain - 'Denn heute gehoert uns Deutschland/Morgen die ganze Welt!' (English: 'For today we have Germany/Tomorrow the whole world!')trust me it helps a lot
The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, HJ) started life as the youth organisation of the Nazi party. It was founded in March 1922 as Jugendbund der NSDAP, (Youth Association of the NSDAP), and was broken down into "Jungmannschaften" (ages 14- 16) and the "Jungsturm Adolf Hitler" (ages 16-18). The latter was directly subordinate to the SA and was, in effect, its youth organisation.At the beginning of 1933, the HJ had around 108,000 members. Once in power the Nazis began a huge drive to encourage youths to join the HJ, and later that year, forced other youth organisations to be absorbed into the HJ (Gleichschaltung = forced conformity) or voluntarily liqiudate. Very soon, the only youth organisation in Germany was the HJ and at its height, had over 8.5 million members. Children who did not join the HJ were treated as outsiders, civil servants were obliged to enroll their children in the organisation. The Nazis attempts to forcefully incorporate the youth organisations of the evangelical churches backfired when they simply voluntarily wound themselves up.The national socialist state saw itself as the embodiment of a "youthful" Germany, and saw in Germany's youth the most important element in shaping a politico-military future. The objective of the HJ was to prepare the youth for their role as a racial elite, teach them to despise and eradicate anything weak and prepare them for war.Hitler expressed his ideals of German youth in his book Mein Kampf, according to which, a physically and mentally pure race was to be raised, that "consciously found its way back to primitive instinct" and would fight anything that led to "effeminacy" and "subversion" of national self-assertion.Hitler took every opportunity to announce his "educational" goals at mass rallies in propagandistic similies and in a speech before 50,000 Hitler Youths in Nuremberg on 14 September 1935 demanded that they should be "swift as greyhounds, tough as leather and hard as Krupps steel" (flink wie die Windhunde, zäh wie Leder, hart wie Kruppstahl).The Hitler Youth was broken down as follows:Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ), for 10- to14-year-old boys, known as Pimpfe (titches),Jungmädelbund (JM), for 10- to 14-year-old girls,The actual Hitlerjugend for 14- to 18-year-old boys,Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), for 14- to 18-year-old girls (later reduced to 17 years),BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (Faith and Beauty),for 17- to 21-year-old girls.