YOUTH LIFE IN GERMANY
The youth were very important to the Nazi, Hitler did all he could to indoctrinate and control the youth by influencing their education, propagandas and starting youth movements geared towards changing the youths perspective towards the Nazi regime. Youths were taught and groomed to forsake their religious views and to turn away from their parents who were anti-Nazi.
INDOTRINATION OF YOUTHS IN SCHOOLS
Schools and universities had an aim of indoctrinating the youth by teaching them ideas of Nazism. School curriculum was designed and changed to reflect the ideologies of Nazi. To ensure that all the teachers were pro Nazis, a rule was enforced that teachers had to join Nazi Teachers Association which vetted them for political suitability. The students were encouraged to report teachers who were teaching anything that was contrary to the Nazi ideology.
INDOCTRINATION OF THE YOUTH OUTSIDE SCHOOL.
The Nazi started a youth movement called Hitler Youth, its aim was to indoctrinate the youth at their most impressionable stage and also to separate them from their parents some of whom opposed the regime. All other youth groups, especially those that were not governed using anti-Nazism ideology such as Boys Scouts were banned.
Hitler Youth group main aim was to groom the youth to join the army and fight for the Nazi regime.
Fear and peer was a major driving force that made the youth to join the Hitler youth group, violence was common between members of the Hitler youth and other associations.
The indoctrination of the German youth was very successful, in the first months of the indoctrination program, Hitler youth was able to enroll about 50,000 youths into their program, by the end of the year, they had over 500000 youths enrolled into their indoctrination program.