Explain the Nature and Purpose of the Hitler Youth Movement?

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Explain the Nature and Purpose of the Hitler Youth Movement?

The Nazis wanted to secure total loyalty from Germanys’ young people to do this Hitler encouraged them to join youth organisations. However, by the end of 1933 all youth clubs were banned this was because Hitler wanted all young people to join his Hitler Youth organisation. The organisation was set up in 1930, before Hitler came into power, there were just over 100,000 members. By the end of 1939, there were over 8 million children in the Hitler youth. The Hitler youth was set up to prepare the children for the future. It was meant so that the girls would be prepared for their future in looking after children and cooking. The boys side of the Hitler youth was to prepare them for the armed forces. All German boys joined at the age of six and German girls joined at the age of 10. Children were so important to Hitler because they were Germanys future he needed them on his side. There were 5 organisations to join, 3 for the boys and 2 for the girls. They were the Pimpfen, The Jungvolk, The Hitlerjugden, theJungmadel and the Bund Deutsch Madchen.

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The purpose of the Hitler youth for boys was to teach them the military skills they would need for later life. There were a number of things the boys did to try to improve these skills. The contributor to these skills were the Military training. For the Military training they practisedcamping skills and fighting. They also practised digging Dug Outs and trenches.All these skills would be essential for later Nazi life. They also put all these skills into practised when they played war games. Instead of using blank rounds though they got given live rounds to shoot with.

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