Hitler Youth Rally Speech, Nuremberg Stadium 1935

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HITLER YOUTH, HITLERJUGEND. Since 1922, the National Socialists had had a youth arm designed to train and recruit members for its paramilitary. As the Nazis became more powerful, their youth arm grew. In Jan. 1933, there were 50,000 members of the Hitler Youth, 'Hitlerjugend.' By the end of the year, there were more than 2 million. As the 1930s progressed, the Nazis waged war on the groups so popular among German youth. First they banned children’s groups associated with political movements like Communism. In 1936, they banned all youth groups, including Boy Scouts, and forced members to become part of the Hitler Youth instead. Jewish children were banned from participation.

Banning scouting sent a message, obey, or be punished. It had a practical effect, too: Since other scouting organizations were banned, the only way for kids to get scouting experience was to join the Hitler Youth. As Germany hurtled toward war, children who refused to join were alienated, then punished. By 1939, over 90 % of German children were part of the Hitler Youth organization. From the 6th year of age, German boys have to join the Nazi organization of youth. Equipped with uniforms and flags, they undergo strenuous physical training that leaves them well prepared for the 2 years they will later serve in the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces).

For Nazis, the group had other benefits. Not only did it allow the Third Reich to indoctrinate children at their most impressionable, but it let the Nazis remove them from the influence of their parents, some of whom opposed the regime. The Nazi Party knew that families- private, cohesive groups not usually under political sway- were an obstacle to their goals. The Hitler Youth was a way to get Hitler’s ideology into the family unit, and some members of the Hitler Youth even denounced their parents when they behaved in ways not approved of by the Reich.

It became clear that the Hitler Youth’s real goal was to create more soldiers for the Reich. Children who had been saturated in Nazi ideology for years made obedient, fanatical soldiers. Those soldiers became younger and younger. Starting in 1943, all boys 17 and older were forced to serve in the military. In 1945, the desperate Nazi leadership began pulling younger boys out of school and sending them to the front.

These inexperienced children were essentially conscripted for suicide missions—and if they balked, they were executed. Survivors faced harsh treatment at the hands of the Allies who captured them. After the war, the Hitler Youth was disbanded. The group is considered one of the most chilling facets of the Nazi regime- proof that a totalitarian state can use children to feed its armies and further its hateful ideologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-hitler-youth-turned-a-generation-of-kids-into-nazis



Flag of the Hitler Youth.

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1. Kick

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2. This is why conservs indoctrinate young men. Breitbart. Prager "U"

Read this about how Republicans indoctrinate youth.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/prager-university

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3. Yes, mold young impressionable minds!

> American Nazis in the GERMAN AMERICAN BUND in the 1930s and 1940s, had groups and youth camps in NY, NJ, Penn., Wisc., Ill., California and more.



WIKI, The German American Bund, or German American Federation (German: Amerikadeutscher Bund; Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, AV), was a German-American pro-Nazi organization established in 1936 to succeed Friends of New Germany (FoNG), the new name being chosen to emphasize the group's American credentials after press criticism that the organization was unpatriotic. The Bund was to consist only of American citizens of German descent. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany.

In May 1933, Nazi Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess gave German immigrant and German Nazi Party member Heinz Spanknöbel authority to form an American Nazi organization. Shortly thereafter, with help from the German consul in New York City, Spanknöbel created the Friends of New Germany by merging two older organizations in the United States, Gau-USA and the Free Society of Teutonia, which were both small groups with only a few hundred members each. The FoNG was based in New York City but had a strong presence in Chicago. Members wore a uniform, a white shirt and black trousers for men with a black hat festooned with a red symbol. Women members wore a white blouse and a black skirt.

The organization led by Spanknöbel was openly pro-Nazi, and engaged in activities such as storming the German language New Yorker Staats-Zeitung with the demand that Nazi-sympathetic articles be published, and the infiltration of other non-political German-American organizations. One of the Friends early initiatives was to counter, with propaganda, the Jewish boycott of German goods, which started in March 1933 to protest Nazi anti-Semitism.

>The Bund established a number of training camps, including Camp Nordland in Sussex County, New Jersey, Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, New York, Camp Hindenburg in Grafton, Wisconsin, Deutschhorst Country Club in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Camp Bergwald in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, and Camp Highland in New York state.

The Bund held rallies with Nazi insignia and procedures such as the Hitler salute and attacked the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jewish-American groups, Communism, "Moscow-directed" trade unions and American boycotts of German goods. The organization claimed to show its loyalty to America by displaying the flag of the United States alongside the flag of Nazi Germany at Bund meetings, and declared that George Washington was "the first Fascist" who did not believe democracy would work. MORE, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund



American Nazi Bund Rally, Madison Square Garden, NYC, Feb. 20, 1939 attended by 20,000 people.



German American Bund Youth Camp, NJ, 1930s.



American Nazi summer camp, Windham, NY, 1930s (National Archives).

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2014/07/31/nazi-summer-camp-american-style/

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4. Dennis Prager, 'PragerU' online univ. that offers no classes or diplomas,

just videos, all funded by two conservative, fracking billionaires.

These 5 min. video speeches remind me of the '4-minute men' talks in WWI that were funded by the federal govt. public info. services to convince Americans to support the war; actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin presented short, patriotic talks to crowds on US street corners.

The right wing 'Prager Talks' with RW media personalities may be more nefarious, and private, so-called educational institutions are growing unfortunately in the last 20+ years, as intended, and apparently have an impact.

A family relative, from Wisc. and an expert senior tax lawyer, was instrumental in founding one of these conservative, far right, online 'universities' sorry to say. A prominent one that many GOP WH appointed attnys. came from. I don't know the person, who truly looks like Hitler (I kid not), only heard about this from another family member.

https://www.prageru.com/videos/illegal-immigration-its-about-power

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5. I know a former Hitler Jugend.

He is 84 this month. He was raised under Hitler's regime 1934 until 1945. He is a terrible excuse for a human being.

He has browbeaten his wife until she reluctantly signed a reverse mortgage, knowing that she will have no home when he dies. He has clearly told his wife that he will not leave her any money or property in his Will. When her parents were ill, he offered her money. When they died, he demanded that she pay him back to the tune of $300,000. She had to take a mortgage to pay him back. Now he is after her to sell her only security, her childhood home (the one she mortgaged), to liquidate it to assets that he wants for himself (and his girlfriends).

He is a horrible person. (Please don't ask me why his wife stays with him. It's an imponderable.)