Hitler Youth
History
HJ for Boys
HJ for Girls
Aftermath
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1926
- Hitler Youth (HJ) founded as a youth movement for the Nazi Party
1928
- girls were allowed into the group
1933
- 100,000 children were in HJ
1935
- 60% of German youth were in HJ
1936
- all other youth groups were banned and merged with HJ
1936
- HJ grew to 4 million members
1936
- all youth educated in Nazi ideas
1937
- Hitler Rifle School established
1938
- attendance fell to only 25% of German youth
1939
- attendance mandatory for youth over age 17
1939
- 90% of Germany's youth (7.3 million) were now members making it the largest youth organization in the world
1941
- all children over the age of 10 had to join
1941
- if parents did not enroll their children, they were threatened that their children would go into orphanages
1944
- young men from HJ were called upon to fight
1944
- only about 600 of the boys were left
1945
- at the end of the war, only 455 boys were left
1945
- the leaders of HJ were tried for corrupting the hearts and minds of millions of children
"Fights for the fuhrer and the people"