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biancaioschpe
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High School - 12th Grade
To what extent did Nazi Propaganda focus on the Youth in Germany?
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brettd Teacher
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Posted by brettd on Tuesday November 10, 2009 at 4:02 PMThe short answer is to a great extent. The youth of Germany became both an obsession and a valuable tool for the Nazi regime. They represented the chance to educate and indoctrinate a population from the time they entered school into adulthood. Many of them would become the most fanatical Nazis.
The idea that young people could be raised to believe ideas of the master race, Jewish subversion, and to follow the cult of personality that was Hitler was irresistible to Joseph Goebbels, his Propaganda Minister. The Hitler Youth was organized for the primary purpose of training large numbers of Nazi-educated, fiercely loyal young people to become the future of the Reich and the backbone of Nazi ideology.
For an inside look at how this worked from a primary source member of the Hitler Youth, read "Child of Hitler" by Alfons Heck.
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