Hitler youth

Question 1

Name all 4 youth organisations and their ages

Answer 1

Boys 10-14 = Young German Folklore

Girls 10-14 = Young Girls

Boys ages 14-18 = Hitler youth

Girls ages 14-18 = League of German maidens

Question 2

What was compulsory 1936

Answer 2

Membership of Hitler youth for age 10

Question 3

What were the aim for boys

Answer 3

• Prepare them for future soldiers and political leaders
• Wore military uniform and focused on physical exercise + political indoctrination
• Sports, singing, military drills, shooting, camping

Question 4

What were the aim for girls

Answer 4

• Prepare for future mothers
• Had uniform and focused on activities like physical exercise and cooking, baking, cleaning
• To be ‘home makers’
• minimal sports and singing

Question 5

What did teachers have to do

Answer 5

Join Nazi teachers association to learn Nazi ideology to indoctrinate children

Question 6

What was the Nazi curriculum

Answer 6

• by 1935 all books had to be approved to they fir Nazi message
• Physical education to keep children fit and healthy
• In history children were taught about the rise of the nazis
• Eugenics = race studies, only produce aryan race
• Geography - need for lebensraum
• all subjects focussed on glorifying German military

Question 7

How successful were the policies of Youths

Answer 7

• Most children were enthusiastic supporters
• some activities were fun and enjoyable
• emphasis on physical education meant children were healthy
• nazis succeeded in indoctrinating nazi ideas into children e.g anti semitism

Question 8

How many children were part of the Hitler youth

Answer 8

90%

Question 9

What 10% of children resisted the hitler youth

Answer 9

Edelweiss Pirates and Swing youth

Question 10

How unsuccessful were the Hitler youths

Answer 10

• Children resented the military drills where some were exhausting
• Parents didn’t like how much time their children spent with the Hitler youth
• Children’s views became extreme like the Nazis

Question 11

What was the relationship between children and Hitler

Answer 11

• children were indoctrinate to love Hitler like his was their father

Question 12

How many boys had been trained in small arm shooting by 1938

Answer 12

1.2 million

Question 13

In 1939 what percentage of all boys ad girls were in the Hitler youth 10-18

Answer 13

82%