1. Trade unions-Hitler youth-Education

2.  The workforce was made up of German
working class that never supported the Nazis.
 On the 2nd of may 1933 the Nazis attack trade
unions and the SA destroyed its head
quarters.
 Trade union leaders were sent to Dachau
Hitler outlawed trade unions and cut the
capacity of an apponent

3.  Hitler replaces the leaders with the DAP
 Some say DAP were better because bosses
weren’t allowed to exploit their workers.
 Others say it was an opportunity of denouncing
 KdF- strength through joy offered a hardworking
incentive scheme led by Robert Ley
 Robert Ley organised compulsory leisure
activities like fitness training ‘Aryans’ in order to
make sure the working class are living the
German way

4.  Germany had a tradition of youth
organisations. Church ones, scout ones.
 They were abolished and replaced by Nazi
organisations
 1936 Hitler established a comprehensive
structure of youth organisations.

5.  1930- 35,000
members
 1936- 7 million
members
 Purpose:
Indoctrinate young
Germans and
prepare them for
military and warfare

6.  Paramilitary group
 Led by SA then after 1934 ‘operation
hummingbird’ led by SS
 Taught physical fitness, weapon training,
outdoor survival
 Taught to deal with death in combat
 Nazi ideology

8.  Some enjoyed HJ others resented it and
disliked the militarism and refused to go
 HJ allowed the SS to identify future leaders or
officials
 Boys were asked to give information on their
parents and neighbours to the gestapo

9.  School was the main tool of indoctrination
 Mixed sex classes were prohibited
 Girls studied ‘ domestic science’ and boys
studied Chemistry and Physics
 New subjects were added such as Nazi theory
and Eugenics they were taught to children
because this taught children that Aryans were
superior to others and Jews didn’t belong in
Germany.

10.  Most schools had a Nazi official in class to
make sure teachers were following the
education policy
 Teachers had to be approved by the Nazis
 Books were printed by the Nazi’s
 12 Adolf Hitler schools where for the ‘elite’

11.  The SS were responsible for the holocaust
therefore the SS must have gone through
indoctrination of Hitler Jugend
 Very little resistance to Nazi policies, even in
WW2 when the ‘Nazi Generation’ was
entering adult hood
 Between 1933-1945 German youth provided
high levels of threat and resistance
 Youth were stronger than any other
democratic group in Germany.