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[[image:Hitler_Youth.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nazi-era propaganda poster: ''Youth serves [[Führer]]: All teenagers into the Hitler Youth.'']]

[[image:Hitler_Youth.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nazi-era propaganda poster: ''Youth serves [[Führer]]: All teenagers into the Hitler Youth.'']]

 

The '''Hitler Youth''' (''Hitler-Jugend'' in German or HJ) organization was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]], the leader of the [[NSDAP]] in July 1926 and future dictator of [[socialist]] [[Nazi Germany]]. It was a recreation of an earlier Nazi youth movement known as the ''Jungenbund der NSDAP''. It was designed to integrate teenage boys and young men so that they might become [[Nazis]]. The Hitler Youth section for boys aged 10 to 14 was known as the ''Deutsches Jungvolk''. The section for boys aged 14 to 18 was the ''Hitlerjugend'' proper. There was also another organization called the [[League of German Girls]] which trained young women in physical fitness, domestic duties and motherhood.<ref>McNab (2009)</ref>  

The '''Hitler Youth''' (''Hitler-Jugend'' in German or HJ) organization was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]], the leader of the [[NSDAP]] in July 1926 and future dictator of [[Germany]]. It was a recreation of an earlier Nazi youth movement known as the ''Jungenbund der NSDAP''. It was designed to integrate teenage boys and young men so that they might become [[Nazis]]. The Hitler Youth section for boys aged 10 to 14 was known as the ''Deutsches Jungvolk''. The section for boys aged 14 to 18 was the ''Hitlerjugend'' proper. There was also another organization called the [[League of German Girls]] which trained young women in physical fitness, domestic duties and motherhood.<ref>McNab (2009)</ref>  

The Hitler Youth was modeled on similar organizations created by other Socialist parties in Germany from the 1920s onwards. The German [[Communist]] party had founded a similar movement in the 1920s, attempting to foster opposing, albeit still [[leftist]], political views.<ref>[http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf ''Road to Serfdom'',] Friedrich A. Hayek, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945, pp. 35-36.</ref> It also had some basis from the [[Boy Scouts]].<ref>http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/new.htm</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a [[fascist]] organization. The leader of the Hitler Youth until August 1940 was Baldur von Schirach, who was a principal defendant of the [[Nuremberg Trials]].

The Hitler Youth was modeled on similar organizations created by other Socialist parties in Germany from the 1920s onwards. The German [[Communist]] party had founded a similar movement in the 1920s, attempting to foster opposing, albeit still [[leftist]], political views.<ref>[http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf ''Road to Serfdom'',] Friedrich A. Hayek, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945, pp. 35-36.</ref> It also had some basis from the [[Boy Scouts]].<ref>http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/new.htm</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a [[fascist]] organization. The leader of the Hitler Youth until August 1940 was Baldur von Schirach, who was a principal defendant of the [[Nuremberg Trials]].