Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) was the youth organization of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. At first membership was voluntary, but after December 1936 all non-Jewish boys in Germany aged 10-18 were required to join.^[1] The girls' branch of the Hitler Youth was called the League of German Girls.^[2]

Parents who stopped their children from participating in the Hitler Youth could be sent to prisons or concentration camps.^[3] A child who was not in the Hitler Youth could be refused a high school diploma, a job, an apprenticeship, and/or entrance to university.^[4][5]

1. ↑ Stachura, Peter (1998). "Hitler Youth". In Buse, Dieter K.; Doerr, Juergen C. (eds.). Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8153-0503-3.
2. ↑ Cite error: The named reference :6 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
3. ↑ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ed. (2007). Nazi ideology and the Holocaust. Washington, D.C: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ISBN 978-0-89604-712-9.
4. ↑ Evans, Richard J. (2006). The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-303790-3.
5. ↑ Fulbrook, Mary (2011). Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928720-8. OCLC 687683015.