Hitler Youth
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- Created on: 13-06-16 13:52
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- Hitler Youth
- 3 Tiers for boys
- Young Folk aged 10-14
- Little Fellows aged 6 -10
- Hitler Youth aged 14-18
- Boys would attend Hitler youth meetings several times after school and special weekend camps every month
- They learned how to march (involving long hikes), fight with knives, fire guns, play different sports and keep themselves fit
- 2 Tiers for girls
- League of German Maidens aged 14-17
- Young girls aged 10-14
- Girls learned how to cook good meals, look after babies as well as going on long hikes
- They were being prepared for motherhood as well as participating in sport
- Hitler wanted to create "young men and women who can suffer pain..."
- Swing types
- Richer youth who refused to join the Hitler youth and instead went to parties, listened to American jazz music (banned due to its black origins) and had Jewish friends
- Other working class youth formed gangs like The Roving Dudes, The Edelweiss pirates and The Navajos
- They went camping and sang songs making fun of Hitler and some even physically attacked Hitler youth groups
- These groups included boys and girls, including Jews
- It was compulsory form 1936, but some people disregarded it
- Bu by 1939, most of the German youth were part of the Hitler Youth
- 3 Tiers for boys
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