How Did Hitler Dominate German Youth

Youth are a crucial force in any society. German Youth of the 1930s were a new generation that would share the vision of a new and prosperous Germany. A group seen as ready for change and therefore vulnerable to the visions and ideology of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. An inquiry into how Hitler and the Nazi Party gained power over youth will investigate the reasons why Hitler sought to control his chosen German youth, the methods used to control the youth and the effects of the Hitler Youth program. An assessment of this youth program will reveal that Hitler and the Nazi Party targeted German youth, for their future plans and through saturation, suggestion and separation; the majority of German youth adopted not only Hitler, but the Nazi

Historian Eileen Hayes states, “The Hitler Youth was such a group, with its own departments of culture, schools, press, propaganda, and so on. All this early organizing was done because Hitler realized that, if and when he finally managed to overthrow the Weimar government, he would need to have something ready to take its place immediately.” (Hayes 1993, p. 15 as cited in Frabotta, 2004) The University of Michigan can corroborate this evaluation, “Without the complete dedication of the Germans that was eventually established through the Hitler Youth, Nazi Germany would not have been as successful as it was. These people made it possible for Hitler to impose his views on the masses and for his ideas to be turned into reality. Hitler attempted to eliminate any opposition in his people by making his ideologies part of everyday life, even for children, and for many years he was very successful.” (Youth Under Fascism: The German Case, 2015) Due to the control Adolf Hitler had over the youth, he had a whole generation that was dedicated to the Nazi Party and the Fatherland, Germany. The youth were desensitized to what was right and wrong and acted without hesitation when ordered