Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend [ˈhɪtlɐˌjuːɡn̩t] (listen), often abbreviated as HJ, [haːˈjɔt] (listen)) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany and it was partially a paramilitary organisation; it was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth (Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitler Jugend or "DJ", also "DJV") for younger boys aged 10 to 14.

For the SS division named Hitlerjugend, see 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.

Hitler Youth
Hitlerjugend
Emblem of the Hitler Youth
Flag of the Hitler Youth
AbbreviationHJ
Motto
  • "Blood and Honour"
  • (Blut und Ehre)
Formation4 July 1926
Dissolved10 October 1945
TypeYouth organisation
Legal statusDefunct, Illegal
Location
Region served
Nazi Germany
Official language
German
Leader
Parent organization
Nazi Party

With the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, the organisation de facto ceased to exist. On 10 October 1945, the Hitler Youth and its subordinate units were outlawed by the Allied Control Council along with other Nazi Party organisations. Under Section 86 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hitler Youth is an "unconstitutional organisation" and the distribution or public use of its symbols, except for educational or research purposes, is illegal.

Origins

In 1922, the Munich-based Nazi Party established its official youth organisation called Jugendbund der NSDAP.[1] It was announced on 8 March 1922 in the Völkischer Beobachter, and its inaugural meeting took place on 13 May the same year.[2] Another youth group was established in 1922 as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler . Based in Munich, Bavaria, it served to train and recruit future members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the main paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party at that time.[3]

Hitler Youth members give the Nazi salute at a rally at the Lustgarten in Berlin, 1933

One reason the Hitler Youth so easily developed was that regimented organisations, often focused on politics, for young people and particularly adolescent boys were a familiar concept to German society in the Weimar Republic. Numerous youth movements existed across Germany prior to and especially after World War I. They were created for various purposes. Some were religious and others were ideological, but the more prominent ones were formed for political reasons, like the Young Conservatives and the Young Protestants.[4] Once Hitler came onto the revolutionary scene, the transition from seemingly innocuous youth movements to political entities focused on Hitler was swift.[5]

Following the abortive Beer Hall Putsch (in November 1923), Nazi youth groups ostensibly disbanded, but many elements simply went underground, operating clandestinely in small units under assumed names. In April 1924, the Jugendbund der NSDAP was renamed Grossdeutsche Jugendbewegung (Greater German Youth Movement).[1] On 4 July 1926, the Grossdeutsche Jugendbewegung was officially renamed Hitler Jugend Bund der deutschen Arbeiterjugend (Hitler Youth League of German Worker Youth). This event took place a year after the Nazi Party was reorganised. The architect of the re-organisation was Kurt Gruber, a law student from Plauen in Saxony.[6]

After a short power struggle with a rival organisation—Gerhard Roßbach's Schilljugend—Gruber prevailed and his "Greater German Youth Movement" became the Nazi Party's official youth organisation. In July 1926, it was renamed Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") and, for the first time, it officially became an integral part of the SA. The name Hitler-Jugend was taken up on the suggestion of Hans Severus Ziegler.[7] By 1930, the Hitlerjugend (HJ) had enlisted over 25,000 boys aged 14 and upward.[8][lower-alpha 1] They also set up a junior branch, the Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ), for boys aged 10 to 14. Girls from 10 to 18 were given their own parallel organisation, the League of German Girls (BDM).[10][11]

In April 1932, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning banned the Hitler Youth movement in an attempt to stop widespread political violence. But in June, Brüning's successor as Chancellor, Franz von Papen, lifted the ban as a way of appeasing Hitler, the rapidly ascending political star. A further significant expansion drive started in 1933, after Baldur von Schirach was appointed by Hitler as the first Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader).[12] All youth organizations were brought under Schirach's control.[3][13]

Doctrine
Hitler Youth at rifle practice, c. 1943

The members of the Hitler Youth were viewed as ensuring the future of Nazi Germany and they were indoctrinated in Nazi ideology, including racism.[14] The Hitler Youth appropriated many of the activities of the Boy Scout movement (which was banned in 1935), including camping and hiking. However, over time it changed in content and intention. For example, many activities closely resembled military training, with weapons training, assault course circuits and basic tactics. The aim was to instill the motivation that would enable its members to fight faithfully for Nazi Germany as soldiers.[15] There was greater emphasis on physical fitness, hardness and military training than on academic study.[15][16] Sacrifice for the cause was inculcated into their training. Former Hitler Youth Franz Jagemann claimed that the notion "Germany must live" even if they (members of the HJ) had to die was "hammered" into them.[17]

Members of the Hitler Youth chosen by the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
Emblem of the Hitler Youth
Uniform from the 1930s

The Hitler Youth were used to break up church youth groups, spy on religious classes and Bible studies,[18] and interfere with church attendance.[19][20] Education and training programs for the Hitler Youth were designed to undermine the values of the traditional elitist structures of German society along with their privileges. Their training also aimed to obliterate social and intellectual distinctions between classes, to be replaced and dominated by the political goals of Hitler's totalitarian dictatorship.[21] Besides promoting a doctrine of classlessness, additional training was provided that linked state-identified enemies such as Jews with Germany's previous defeat in the First World War, and societal decline.[22] The Hitler Youth were indoctrinated with the myths of Aryan racial superiority and to view Jews and Slavs as subhumans.[23][24][25] As historian Richard Evans observes, "The songs they sang were Nazi songs. The books they read were Nazi books."[26]

Organisation

The Hitler Youth was organised into corps under adult leaders, and the general membership of the HJ consisted of boys aged 14 to 18.[10] The Hitler Youth was organised into local cells on a community level. Such cells had weekly meetings at which various Nazi doctrines were taught by adult leaders. Regional leaders typically organised rallies and field exercises in which several dozen Hitler Youth cells would participate. The largest gathering usually took place annually at Nuremberg, where members from all over Germany would converge for the annual Nazi Party rally.[27] Since the HJ and BDM were considered fully Aryan organizations by Nazi officials, premarital sex was encouraged in their ranks.[28][lower-alpha 2]

The Hitler Youth maintained training academies comparable to preparatory schools, which were designed to nurture future Nazi Party leaders.[30] The Hitler Youth also maintained several corps designed to develop future officers for the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces). The corps offered specialised foundational training for each of the specific arms for which the member was ultimately destined. The Marine Hitler Youth (Marine-HJ), for example, served as an auxiliary to the Kriegsmarine.[30] Another branch of the Hitler Youth was the Deutsche Arbeiter Jugend – HJ (German Worker Youth – HY). This organisation within the Hitler Youth was a training ground for future labor leaders and technicians. Its symbol was a rising sun with a swastika.[31] A program entitled Landjahr Lager (Country Service Camp) was designed to teach specifically chosen girls of the BDM high moral character standards within a rural educational setting.[32]

The Hitler Youth had a number of monthly and weekly publications, among them were the Hitler-Jugend-Zeitung (Hitler Youth Newspaper), the Sturmjugend (Storm Youth), Junge Front (Young Front), Deutschen Jugendnachrichten (News for German Youth), and Wille und Macht (Will and Power).[33] Other publications included Das Junge Deutschland (Young Germany), Das deutsche Mädel (a paper for girls in the BdM), and Junge Dorfgemeinschaft (Young Villager).[34]

Hitlerjugend camp in China in 1935, with permission of the Government of the Republic of China

Membership

In 1923, the youth organisation of the Nazi Party had a little over 1,200 members.[35] In 1925, when the Nazi Party was refounded, the membership grew to over 5,000.[35] Five years later, national membership stood at 26,000.[35] By the end of 1932, it was at 107,956.[36] The Nazis came to power in 1933, and the membership of Hitler Youth organisations increased dramatically to 2,300,000 members by the end of that year. Much of this increase came from the forcible takeover of other youth organisations. The sizeable Evangelische Jugend (Evangelical Youth), a Lutheran youth organisation of 600,000 members, was integrated on 18 February 1934.[37] In December 1936, a law declared the Hitler Youth to be the only legally permitted youth organisation in Germany, and stated that "all of the German youth in the Reich is organised within the Hitler Youth".[38]

By December 1936, Hitler Youth membership had reached over five million.[39] That same month, membership became mandatory for Aryans under the Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth Law).[40] This legal obligation was reaffirmed in March 1939 with the Jugenddienstpflicht (Youth Service Duty), which conscripted all German youths into the Hitler Youth—even if the parents objected.[41] Parents who refused to allow their children to join were subject to investigation by the authorities.[42] From then on, the vast majority of Germany's teenagers belonged to the Hitler Youth. By 1940, it had eight million members.[43]

Even before membership was made mandatory in 1939, German youth faced strong pressure to join. Students who held out were frequently assigned essays with titles such as "Why am I not in the Hitler Youth?"[44] They were also the subject of frequent taunts from teachers and fellow students, and could even be refused their diploma—which made it impossible to be admitted to university.[44] A number of employers refused to offer apprenticeships to anyone who was not a member of the Hitler Youth. By 1936, the Hitler Youth had a monopoly on all youth sports facilities in Germany, effectively locking out non-members. Hitler spoke of the regime's ability to make Nazis out of these German youth, exclaiming in 1938:

These boys and girls enter our organizations with their ten years of age, and often for the first time get a little fresh air; after four years of the Young Folk they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years...And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months...And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left...the Wehrmacht will take care of that.[45]

As time went on, however, a number of boys chafed under the regimented nature of the organization. Some dropped out and only rejoined when they learned that they could not get a job or enter university without being a member.[46] There were a few members of the Hitler Youth who privately disagreed with Nazi ideologies. For instance, Hans Scholl—the brother of Sophie Scholl and one of the leading figures of the anti-Nazi resistance movement Weiße Rose (White Rose)—was also a member of the Hitler Youth.[47][lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]

Despite rare instances of disaffection, overall, the Hitler Youth constituted the single most successful of all the mass movements in the Third Reich.[48]

World War II
16-year-old Willi Hübner being awarded the Iron Cross in March 1945

On 1 May 1940, Artur Axmann was appointed deputy to Schirach, whom he succeeded as Reichsjugendführer of the Hitler Youth on 8 August 1940.[49] Axmann began to reform the group into an auxiliary force which could perform war duties.[50] The Hitler Youth became active in German fire brigades and assisted with recovery efforts to German cities affected by Allied bombing. The Hitler Youth also assisted in such organisations as the Reich postal service, the Reich railroad services, and other government offices;[51] members of the HJ also aided the army and served with anti-aircraft defense crews.[52]

By 1943, Nazi leaders began turning the Hitler Youth into a military reserve to replace manpower which had been depleted due to tremendous military losses. The idea for a Waffen-SS division made up of Hitler Youth members was first proposed by Axmann to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in early 1943.[53] The plan for a combat division made up of Hitler Youth members born in 1926 was passed on to Hitler for his approval. Hitler approved the plan in February and Gottlob Berger was tasked with recruiting.[53] Fritz Witt of SS Division Leibstandarte (LSSAH) was appointed divisional commander.[54]

In 1944, the 12th SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend was deployed during the Battle of Normandy against the British and Canadian forces to the north of Caen. Over 20,000 German youths participated in the attempt to repulse the D-Day invasion;[55] while they knocked out 28 Canadian tanks during their first effort, they ultimately lost 3,000 lives before the Normandy assault was complete.[56] During the following months, the division earned a reputation for ferocity and fanaticism. When Witt was killed by Allied naval gunfire, SS-Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer assumed command and became the divisional commander at age 33.[57][lower-alpha 5]

As German casualties escalated with the combination of Operation Bagration and the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation in the east, and Operation Cobra in the west, members of the Hitlerjugend were recruited at ever younger ages. By 1945, the Volkssturm was commonly drafting 12-year-old Hitler Youth members into its ranks. During the Battle of Berlin, Axmann's Hitler Youth formed a major part of the last line of German defense, and they were reportedly among the fiercest fighters. Although the city commander, General Helmuth Weidling, ordered Axmann to disband the Hitler Youth combat formations, in the confusion this order was never carried out. The remnants of the youth brigade took heavy casualties from the advancing Russian forces. Only two survived.[58]

Post World War II
Baldur von Schirach (in second row, second from right) at the Nuremberg Trials seated with other high-ranking Nazis

The Hitler Youth was disbanded by Allied authorities as part of the denazification process. Some Hitler Youth members were suspected of war crimes but, because they were children, no serious efforts were made to prosecute these claims. While the Hitler Youth was never declared a criminal organisation, its adult leadership was considered tainted for corrupting the minds of young Germans. Many adult leaders of the Hitler Youth were put on trial by Allied authorities, and Baldur von Schirach was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[59] However, he was convicted of crimes against humanity for his actions as Gauleiter of Vienna, not for his leadership of the Hitler Youth, because Artur Axmann had been serving as the functioning leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 onward. Axmann only received a 39-month prison sentence in May 1949, but he was not found guilty of war crimes.[60] Later, in 1958, a West Berlin court fined Axman 35,000 marks (approximately £3,000, or US$8,300), about half the value of his property in Berlin. The court found him guilty of indoctrinating German youth with National Socialism until the end of the war, but concluded that he was not guilty of war crimes.[60]

German children born in the 1920s and 1930s became adults during the Cold War years. Since membership was compulsory after 1936, it was neither surprising nor uncommon that many senior leaders of both West and East Germany had been members of the Hitler Youth. Little effort was made to blacklist political figures who had been members, since many had little choice in the matter. These German post-war leaders were nonetheless once part of an important institutional element of Nazi Germany. Historian Gerhard Rempel opined that Nazi Germany itself was impossible to conceive without the Hitler Youth, as their members constituted the "social, political, and military resiliency of the Third Reich" and were part of "the incubator that maintained the political system by replenishing the ranks of the dominant party and preventing the growth of mass opposition."[61] Rempel also reports that a large percentage of the boys who served in the HJ slowly came to the realization that "they had worked and slaved for a criminal cause", which they carried for a lifetime. Some of them recalled a "loss of freedom" and claimed that their time in the HJ "had robbed them of a normal childhood."[62] Historian Michael Kater relates how many who once served in the HJ were silent until older age when they became grandparents. While they were eventually able to look back at their place in "a dictatorship which oppressed, maimed, and killed millions", he maintains that an honest appraisal should lead them to conclude that their past contributions to the regime had "damaged their own souls."[63]

Once Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied Powers, the Hitler Youth—like all NSDAP organisations—was officially abolished by the Allied Control Council on 10 October 1945[64] and later banned by the German Criminal Code.[lower-alpha 6]

Ranks and uniforms
Decals of the Hitlerjugend used on various helmets.

Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader) was the highest rank of the Hitler Youth and was held by the Nazi Party official in command of the entire organization.[65] The rank of Reichsjugendführer was only held by two people during its existence, first by Baldur von Schirach and later by Artur Axmann.[66]

Members' summer uniform consisted of black shorts and tan shirt with pockets, worn with a rolled black neckerchief secured with a woggle, usually tucked under the collar.[67] Headgear originally consisted of a beret, but this was discarded by the HJ in 1934.[68] One flag/symbol used by the HJ was the same as the DJ, a white Sowilo rune on a black background, which symbolised "victory".[69] Another flag used was a red-white-red striped flag with a black swastika in the middle, inside a white shaped diamond. Full members would also receive a knife upon enrollment, with the motto "Blood and Honor" engraved upon it.[70]

HJ Rank[71] HJ insignia[72] Translation Heer equivalent British equivalent[71]
Reichsjugendführer
Reichsjugendführer National Youth Leader Generalfeldmarschall Field Marshal
Höheres Führerkorps
Stabsführer Staff Leader Generaloberst General
Obergebietsführer Senior Area Leader General der Waffengattung Lieutenant General
Gebietsführer Area Leader Generalleutnant Major General
Hauptbannführer Head Banner Leader Generalmajor Brigadier
Führerkorps
Oberbannführer Senior Banner Leader None None
Bannführer Banner Leader Oberst Colonel
Oberstammführer Senior Unit Leader Oberstleutnant Lieutenant Colonel
Stammführer Unit Leader Major Major
Höhere Führerschaft
Hauptgefolgschaftsführer Head Cadre Unit Leader Hauptmann/Rittmeister Captain
Obergefolgschaftsführer Senior Cadre Unit Leader Oberleutnant Lieutenant
Gefolgschaftsführer Cadre Unit Leader Leutnant Second Lieutenant
Führerschaft
Oberscharführer Senior Squad Leader Oberfeldwebel Sergeant Major
Scharführer Squad Leader Feldwebel Staff Sergeant
Oberkameradschaftsführer Senior Comrade Unit Leader Unterfeldwebel Sergeant
Kameradschaftsführer Comrade Unit Leader Unteroffizier Corporal
Oberrottenführer Senior Section Leader Obergefreiter Lance Corporal
Rottenführer Section Leader Gefreiter None
Hitlerjungen
Hitlerjunge Hitler Youth Soldat Private
Source: [lower-alpha 7]

Troop colours:[72] [lower-alpha 8]

  •  Carmine (karmesinrot): Area and Reichsjugendführer staffs
  •  Scarlet (hochrot): GeneralHJ
  •  Light blue (hellblau): Flyer-HJ (Flieger-HJ)
  •  Pink (rosa): Motor HJ (Motor-HJ)
  •  Yellow (gelb): Communications-HJ (Nachrichten-HJ)
  •  Green (grün): HJ-agricultur service (HJ-Landdienst)
  •  White (weiß):
    • NSDAP educational institutions
    • HJ-Patrol service (1943): (Hj-Streifendienst)
  • Navy-HJ (Marine-HJ)
  • Mounted-HJ: (Reiter-HJ)
  • HJ-mountain walk grups (HJ-Bergfahrtengruppen)
  • HJ-fire brigade units: (HJ-Ferwehrscharen)
  • HJ-fiel surgeon: (HJ-Feldschere)
  • BDM-health service girl (BDM-Gesundheitsdienstmädel)
  • Mountain-HJ: (Gebirgsjäger-HJ)

See also

References

Informational notes

  1. Historian Richard Evans reported an even lower number of only 18,000 members of the HJ in 1930.[9]
  2. At the 1936 Nuremberg Rally, where there were some 100,000 participants of the HJ and Girls' League present, upwards of 900 girls between fifteen and eighteen years of age returned home pregnant.[29]
  3. This fact is emphasised in the film The White Rose which depicts how Scholl was able to resist Nazi Germany's ideology while being a member of the Nazi Party's youth movement.
  4. The 1993 Thomas Carter film Swing Kids also focuses on this topic.
  5. Meyer was later sentenced to death by a Canadian court after his capture for ordering the HJ to shoot 64 British and Canadian POWs (making them complicit in a war crime).[56]
  6. The Hitler Youth and their related symbology was connoted as unconstitutional in the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) (StGB): § 86 StGB: Verbreiten von Propagandamitteln verfassungswidriger Organisationen (Dissemination of Propaganda Material of Unconstitutional Organizations) and by § 86a StGB: Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen (Use of Signs of Unconstitutional Organisations). See: http://www.lawww.de/Library/stgb/86.htm or https://www.bundestag.de/blob/195550/4db1151061f691ac9a8be2d9b60210ac/das_strafbare_verwenden_von_kennzeichen_verfassungswidriger_organisationen-data.pdf
  7. To verify these ranks, see the Nazi publication: Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP (1943). Organisationshandbuch der NSDAP. München: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., Tafels 55,56, and p. 458.
  8. See: Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP (1943), p. 460/461-462.

Citations

  1. Lepage 2009, p. 21.
  2. Mühlberger 2004, pp. 30–32.
  3. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, p. 431.
  4. Koch 1996, p. 40.
  5. Koch 1996, pp. 40–41.
  6. Lepage 2009, pp. 21–23.
  7. Klee 2005, p. 694.
  8. Stachura 1975, pp. 114–115.
  9. Evans 2006, p. 271.
  10. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, pp. 431, 434.
  11. Kater 2004, p. 16.
  12. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, pp. 431, 835.
  13. Kater 2004, pp. 48–59.
  14. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, pp. 432–435.
  15. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, pp. 434–435.
  16. Evans 2006, p. 273.
  17. Rees 2012, p. 135.
  18. Bonney 2009, p. 139.
  19. Koch 1996, p. 220.
  20. Rempel 1989, p. 102.
  21. Hildebrand 1984, p. 45.
  22. Kater 2004, pp. 62–69.
  23. Bennecke 1937.
  24. Stellrecht 1938.
  25. Kater 2004, p. 170.
  26. Evans 2006, p. 274.
  27. Koch 1996, pp. 63, 68, 72, 105.
  28. Mühlhäuser 2014, p. 170.
  29. Grunberger 1971, p. 280.
  30. McNab 2009, p. 155.
  31. Littlejohn 1988, p. 55.
  32. Shirer 1990, pp. 254–255.
  33. Lepage 2009, p. 78.
  34. Lepage 2009, pp. 78–79.
  35. Rempel 1989, p. 266.
  36. Koch 1996, p. 89.
  37. Priepke 1960, pp. 187–189.
  38. Shirer 1990, p. 253.
  39. Rempel 1989, p. 268.
  40. Stachura 1998, p. 478.
  41. Müller 1943, pp. 87–89.
  42. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2007, p. 35.
  43. Stachura 1998, p. 479.
  44. Evans 2006, p. 272.
  45. Fritzsche 2009, pp. 98–99.
  46. Fulbrook 2011, pp. 140–142.
  47. Kater 2004, pp. 122–123.
  48. Williamson 2002, p. 55.
  49. Hamilton 1984, p. 247.
  50. Stein 1984, pp. 205–206.
  51. Rempel 1989, p. 68.
  52. Dear & Foot 1995, p. 425.
  53. McNab 2013, p. 295.
  54. Stein 1984, p. 205.
  55. Bartoletti 2005, p. 133.
  56. Kater 2004, p. 214.
  57. Forty 2004, p. 29.
  58. Butler 1986, p. 172.
  59. Rempel 1989, pp. 250–251.
  60. Hamilton 1984, p. 248.
  61. Rempel 1989, p. 2.
  62. Rempel 1989, p. 252.
  63. Kater 2004, p. 265.
  64. Cogen 2012, p. 226.
  65. McNab 2009, p. 15.
  66. Hamilton 1984, pp. 247, 334.
  67. Stephens 1973, p. 43.
  68. Stephens 1973, p. 8.
  69. Stephens 1973, p. 73.
  70. Wilson 2012, p. 74.
  71. CIA 1999, p. 21.
  72. Verlag Moritz Ruhl 1936, Table 20.

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