| | The '''Hitler Youth''' (''Hitler-Jugend'' in German) organization was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]], the leader of the [[NSDAP]] in 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]]. 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 leader of the [[NSDAP]] in 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]]. There was also another organization called the [[League of German Girls]] which trained young women in domestic duties and motherhood. |
| − | 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 it 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, pg. 35 - 36.</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a [[fascist]] organization. | + | 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, pg. 35 - 36.</ref> However, from its conception the Hitler Youth was entirely a [[fascist]] organization. |
| | The leader of the Hitler Youth throughout the Nazi dictatorship was Baldur von Schirach, who was a principal defendant of the [[Nuremberg Trials]]. | | The leader of the Hitler Youth throughout the Nazi dictatorship was Baldur von Schirach, who was a principal defendant of the [[Nuremberg Trials]]. |