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The '''Hitler Youth''' (''Hitler-Jugend'' in German) organization was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]], the dictator of [[Germany]], in 1933. It was designed to train young men to become [[Nazis]]. There was also another organization called the [[League of German Girls]] which trained young women in domestic duties and motherhood.
The '''Hitler Youth''' (''Hitler-Jugend'' in German) organization was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]], the dictator of [[Germany]], in 1933. It was designed to train young men to become [[Nazis]]. There was also another organization called the [[League of German Girls]] which trained young women in domestic duties and motherhood.
The idea of a political party which embraces all activities of the individual from the cradle to the grave, which claims to guide the individual's views on everything, was first put into practice by the [[socialist]]s. It was not the [[fascist]]s but the socialists who began to collect children at the tenderest age into political organization to direct their thinking. It was not the fascists but the socialists who first thought of organizing sports and games, football and hiking, in party clubs where the members would not be infected by other
The Hitler Youth was modelled on similar organisations created by left-wing parties in Germany from the 1920s onwards. The German [[Communist]] party had founded a similar movement in the 1920s, albeit attempting to foster opposing political views. The ideal of a political movement which should encompass the individual's life was thus shared between the right-wing and left-wing political movements.
views. <ref>[http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf ''Road to Serfdom'',] Friedrich A. Hayek, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945, pg. 35 - 36.</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a fascist organization.
views. <ref>[http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf ''Road to Serfdom'',] Friedrich A. Hayek, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945, pg. 35 - 36.</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a fascist organization.