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Hitler words about the young:
"A violently active,
dominating, intrepid, brutal youth -- that is what I am after. Youth
must be all those things. It must be indifferent to pain. There must be
no weakness or tenderness in it. I want to see once more it its eyes the
gleam of pride and independence of the beast of prey... I intend to have
an athletic youth--that is the first and the chief thing... I will have
no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin to my young men."
By
1939, about 90% of the "Aryan" children in Germany belonged
to Nazi youth groups. A massive propaganda campaign was aimed at
Germany's youth. The Nazis indoctrinated boys and girls in their
duties to the state from a young age. They saw education as critical
to the new Germany:
"National
Socialist education is an education in the thinking of the German
people, in understanding German traditions, in awakening the pure,
uncorrupted and honest people's consciousness, their sense of belonging
to the people. Only a pure member of the German race can have such an
understanding of his people, crowning it with the willingness to
sacrifice all for the people. . . .Race, military training, leadership,
religion! These are the four unshakable foundations of the new German
National Socialist education!"
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