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Hitler found the young people easy to indoctrinate as their minds were still young enough to
be molded and to get them ready for the army. The Nazis wanted to get the support of every
child, so Hitler’s Germany would continue throughout ages. The Nazi Party (NSDAP) directed
propaganda at children in Nazi Germany between the 1920s and 1945 to influence the values
and beliefs of the future generation of German citizens according to their political agenda and
ideology. The Nazi Party targeted children with mandatory youth organizations, school courses
on racial purity, and anti-Semitic children’s books. The Nazis wanted to control young people
because they also wanted to train young boys for membership in the SA, the Party's main
paramilitary organization at the time. In 1933, leaders of the Hitler Youth decided to integrate
boys into the Nazi national community and prepare them for service as soldiers in the SS.
Having control over young people had many benefits. Not only did it allow the Third Reich to
indoctrinate children at their most impressionable, but it let the Nazis remove them from the
influence of their parents, some of whom opposed the regime. The Nazi Party knew that
families—private, cohesive groups not usually under political sway—were an obstacle to their
goals. The Hitler Youth was a way to get Hitler’s ideology into the family unit, and some
members of the Hitler Youth even denounced their parents when they behaved in ways not
approved of by the Reich. In conclusion the Nazis wanted to control young people to show that
a totalitarian state can use children to feed its armies and further its hateful ideologies.
How did the Nazis set about controlling young people?
From the 1920s onwards, the Nazi Party targeted German youth as a special audience for its
propaganda messages. These messages emphasized that the Party was a movement of youth:
dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful. Millions of German young people were won
over to Nazism in the classroom and through extracurricular activities. By 1937 membership in
the Hitler Youth increased to 5.4 million before it became mandatory in 1939. Schools played an
important role in spreading Nazi ideas to German youth. While censors removed some books
from the classroom, German educators introduced new textbooks that taught students love for
Hitler, obedience to state authority, militarism, racism, and antisemitism. For young girls, they
would be taught sewing, cooking and other domestic tasks at the league of German girls youth
group. Young people would be taught at school about race and Nazi ideologies. At Hitler youth
young boys had a lot of activities on physical exercise to prepare them for the military, they
were also taught how to clean a rifle. To sum up, young boys and girls were controlled by
school and youth camps and were brainwashed into obeying Hitler.
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