INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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Question
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14-18 year olds
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10-18 year olds
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4-8 year olds
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11-21 year olds
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 1930, the Hitlerjugend (HJ) had enlisted over 25, 000 boys aged 14 and upward. 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).
Detailed explanation-2: -Hitler was fanatically interested in the youth of the country. He felt that a strong Nazi society could be established only by teaching children Nazi ideology.
Detailed explanation-3: -Towards the end of the war, the Germans established an entire SS Panzer Tank Division with the majority of its recruits being 16-and 17-year-old boys from the Hitler Youth brigades. In the 1st Battalion over 65% were under 18 years old, and only 3% were over 25. There were more than 10, 000 boys in this division.
Detailed explanation-4: -Born in 1889 in Austria, Hitler spent his youth in poverty.
Detailed explanation-5: -On September 25, 1944, anticipating the invasion of the German Fatherland, the Volkssturm (People’s Army) was formed under the overall command of Heinrich Himmler. Every available male aged 16 to 60 was conscripted into this new army and trained to use the Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon.