...The Hitler’s youth The Hitler’s youth was the future of the Nazi Germany. Hitler expected German children to be like: "The weak must be chiselled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp's steel." The Hitler’s Youth was created in 1920s. By 1933 they had over 100,000 members. Hitler’s youth was created for people between 10 and 18 years old. The boys and girls were separate organisations. The boys were preparing for military service they were practicing grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, gas defence and how to get under barbed wire. And girls were preparing for motherhood. And girls had to be able to 60 meters in 14 seconds, throw a ball 12 meters, complete a two hour march, swim 100 meters, and know how to make a bed. Boys at 10 joined the Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People) until 13 years old when they were transferred to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth.) * Teachers had to be members of the Nazi party * Timetables included new subjects Race Study and Party Belief * Every child had to be fit and ready to fight * P.E lessons were every day from 2pm to 6pm * Gifted and talented children were sent to a special school called the Adolf Hitler school-To be trained as future leaders. * Outside school German children were supposed to join the Hitler Youth or German Girl’s League. Education became much more ideologically driven...
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...When thinking about nazi portrayal in films today there is an immediate connection to terror, violence, fear and world domination led by a ruthless inhuman leader and his vast army of followers as deceptively represented. We also now know that through incredibly well though and complex film aesthetics the Nazis manage to trick if not even hypnotize their nation into their leader's plans of hyper segregation, world domination and power generated by fear and intimidation. The german cineast Wim Wenders even stated that "never before and in no other country have images and language been abused so unscrupulously as here, never before and nowhere else have they been debased so deeply as vehicles to transmit lies". (Rentschler, 1996 pg 1). it is then clear to us that the national socialist cinema is today considered one, if not the biggest atrocity in cinemas history. But if such is so obvious today, how was it possible for such movies to appeal to such vast number of people ? The most obvious one would be the incredible shocking and emotionally charged portrayal of the families which lived in great poverty and led immensely degrading lives due to the economic and political situation at the time. After having been defeated in the World War 1, a socialist revolution took place which led to the creation of the Weimar republic. They were also forced to pay an incredible amount of money due to damages and saw parts of its territory being distributed away between other nations....
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...camera drifted towards the grand gothic church with its bells ringing, I wanted leave immediately to go on a German vacation. The scene truly captured the best of the area, and left me wanting more. I would be proud if that was my home. The city streets were full of flags, flags symbolizing national pride, flags with swastikas on them. I can see the emotional appeal of this imagery, because it was working on me almost 80 years later, minus the swastikas. It is not hard to see or feel how the country men of Germany would have seen this film in their own hometowns after World War I. Imagine downtrodden people, in an economic depression and in need of a leader who could restore hope. The next scene with farmers presenting their crops to Hitler in traditional garb was also enchanting. Here is this man rising to power, bringing a message of hope and given homage to the past. People of Germany were in need of food and seeing this bounty would have look seductive and promising. I was also found myself admiring the beautiful cloths and heritage they represented. They looked festive, special and symbolic of better times. The farmers made their way to the German motorcade. The traditional German got to shake hands with a modern progressive. Eager on-lookers were seen climbing up on ledges to get a better look. The visuals so far in this film present the audience with a curious wonder. Who is this man and what is all the fuss about? If I had been viewing this in a small town...
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...daily lives, as well as leaving us with an indelible mark on our personalities and attitudes about everything we think and do. We have so-called pundits in the media constantly telling us what is good and bad for us. They sensationalize everything in our lives. These so-called experts in many cases have an agenda, and permeate our culture with information that they clearly know is misleading and will shape our lives to their way of thinking. It starts with their messages to our children, and consequently our children grow up thinking that these messages are based in fact, when the truth is that is based solely on their view of the world and how they want our children and eventually the rest of us to believe. It’s the same tactic used by Hitler and the NAZI party back in the 30’s and 40’s. There is suppose to be a free exchange of ideas, but when the mainstream media and the government collude to supposedly inform or educate us, they are actually indoctrinating us, and it is very dangerous. To grab our attention, they sensationalize the headlines, knowing full well that by doing it, we will automatically want to read more about what’s in an article, thereby pulling us into their web of misinformation. It’s very important that we constantly explain to our children, that not everyone is out for our best interest, and they need to examine closely what they are reading and who is writing it, and why the writer is writing it. Sensationalism is a two edge...
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...bind that connects them over time and words. This is shown when Viktor Chemmel begins berating Liesel and he tosses Liesel’s book in the river, Rudy doesn’t hesitate to dive in after it, not because it holds any value to him but because he knows it’s important to Liesel, “A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned” Through this action the ideas about the value of loyalty are highlighted. In several ways Rudy is also representative of a typical teenager, and he shows that even in extraordinary circumstances people will continue to have rather ordinary concerns. Although there’s a war going on, his main interest is usually soccer or winning races. His conflicts in the Hitler Youth have nothing to do with ideology; they’re simply about the fact that he and Franz Deutscher have taken a disliking to each other, “Four gold medals…It would show all those bastards who said I was crazy” Through these simple mundane tasks the world outside of the world is depicted. It demonstrates that it wasn’t only about the people fighting, but also the people they left behind. Word...
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...Describe what life was like women and children under the Nazis Hitler went through a lot of trouble to make sure that the young people were loyal to him and the Nazi party. School books were rewritten to give them good view of Nazi's; all teachers had to belong to the German Teachers League, put across Nazi ideas in their lessons and go to compulsory training courses during school holidays. German school children were not educated but indoctrinated (getting people to believe in a set of ideas.) Outside of school, young people had to belong to youth organisation which taught them loyalty to Hitler and military training. The five organisations together made up Hitler Youth Movement (HYM): By 1939 some 8 million had joined the Hitler Youth Movement. Every year Hitler youth had to go to training camps where they learnt to read maps, did sports, gymnastics and they were taught Nazi ideas. Training was taken very seriously. A fourteen year-old guard at the entrance shot dead a ten year-old boy who could not remember the password. Every child had a "performance book" where marks for athletics, camping and fighting skills were recorded. Those with the highest scores went to special schools were they were trained to be leaders of the future. The Adolf Hitler Schools took boys from the Young Folk at the age of 12, gave them 6 years of tough training before sending them to university or the army. The very best pupils) were sent to school called Order Castle...
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...How did the Nazis transform German society in the period from 1933 to 1939? From 1933 to 1939 German society undertook a major transformation. The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, used their immense political power in Germany to transform a number of social, cultural and economic policies. As part of this, several social policies were implemented that were to have a large assistance in the transformation of German society. These social policies included Volksgemeinschaft (The People’s Community) and changes to the aspect of Women and their role in Nazism, with policies and social groups such as The German Women’s League, Mutterkreuz, Lebensborn and Aryan racial purity being implemented. The creation of youth organisations in German society was another factor that influenced Germany socially, with several prominent youth groups like Hitler Youth, Jungvolk, Pimpf, Bund Deutscher Madel and Jungmadelbund being created. Between 1933 to 1939, a number of prominent cultural policies were also implemented by the Nazis. Such changes were indicated to areas such as religion, where the relationships between Nazis and different religious leaders was transformed. The German economy was the final aspect of German society that was to experience several changes from 1933 to 1939. The life of the German workers was transformed, with important groups such as the German Labour Front, Strength through Joy, and personalities such as the role of Robert Ley taking part in transforming Germany’s economy...
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...The young men that Hiltler chose to create the Sturmabteilung had no importance in their society and were treated inferior by the educated and rich of their society. Young men that do not feel dominant in their situation will usually try to find a way to be superior and have dominance. Hitler was part of the Nazi party and was very dominant. While Hitler was persuading them to join that paramilitary wing the young men were not considering the issue or the position they were taking. The young men were persuaded on unrelated factors, such that they would not be inferior anymore in society. The Attitude they were using is called peripheral- route processing. Hitler was a very smart man and knew exactly who to target. Which is why he chose these young men that were very hungry for power and dominance. Also since Hitler was such a powerful figure the young men would easily follow his command. Hitler asked them to join the group and they young uneducated men became obedient because of the commands from Hitler. Hitler spoke to the young men’s emotions, which stirred them, and helps convince them to join the group. Once the group was together the individual thinking was thrown out and they used groupthink. This is one reason why normal individuals joined Hilter and continued to terrorize other people. They followed the will of the group and it continued to get worse as the groups got larger and the Nazi party included many...
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...Human Rights Issues- Genocide and Forcing Children Have you ever been forced into doing something you don’t really want to do? Maybe your parents “force” you to do your homework or clean your room, but what if it was something damaging? What if you were forced to kill of an entire race or species? Ender Wiggin had to do just that at only eleven years of age. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game demonstrates forcing children to go into wars and genocide, which have been issues in many other countries. Card presents genocide and forcing children to fight in wars through the character Ender; an eleven-year-old boy who is imposed into fighting and wiping out the whole bugger species. Card writes, “‘… You won every battle, and today you finally fought them at their home world, where the queen was, all the queens from all their colonies, they all were there and you destroyed them completely…’”(297). In this conversation, Ender realizes that it wasn’t a game, and all of the attacks he enforced were real. He actually committed genocide, something he clearly did not want to do. Another example is, “ ‘Of course we tricked you into it. That’s the whole point,’ said Graff. ‘It had to be a trick or you couldn’t have done it… But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed. Could never go into battle willing to win at all costs. If you knew, you couldn’t do it…’”(Card 298). With this detail, it shows that this was not Ender’s choice and that he did not want...
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...Parie Dedeaux Jr. Mr. Dean December 7th , 2015 Period 2 Book report You would think that a child so young would be exempt from worrying about war. My little cousin , Harold , is only 8 right now. Two years younger than Karl at the start of the book. I don’t even let him walk home from the bus stop yet! Unfortunately, during Nazi Germany, children were far from exempt. In fact, by age 14, they were required to join Hitler Youth. At age 10, they joined Jungvolk, the precursor to Hitler Youth. Basically, their training began the moment they turned double-digits. Can you imagine that? Karl Veth is an incredibly intelligent young man. When he’s not buried deep in an educational tome, he and his friend Harold enjoy exploring the rail tunnels. Basically, things that many young boys like to do. Karl’s intelligence doesn’t get him into the Cadet school with Harold, though, so Karl is sent away to an evacuation camp as part of his Jungvolk duties. There, he does such a tremendous job of bringing order to the camp that he spends the next four years traveling to other camps to do the same. Things change constantly in Nazi Germany. One moment the schools are segregated by sex and the next, girls and boys are sitting in the same classroom being taught by a woman with a “painted face!” First, the segregation alone was unusual in that time, and second, respectable women did not wear makeup. Karl ends up graduating early and spending the majority of his time at the camps as more and...
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...ideas that are explored are Loss of Childhood innocence, The importance of friendship, and Discrimination. The ideas are important as they help to teach us about the devastating events of the holocaust and how we shouldn’t let history repeat itself. This is done using visual and verbal features such as symbolism, characterisations, and cinematography. Loss of childhood innocence is one important idea that recurs throughout the film ‘Boy in the striped pyjamas’ It is often shown through the use of symbolism one major event shown is how Gretel disposes of her dolls throwing them all into the basement before transforming her room from bright and innocent into a new reality showing posters and propaganda displaying her involvement with the Hitler Youth Movement. Then she became interested in young soldiers all these began taking place and she’s only 12. Besides that one of the main events to set this idea was moving houses, going from a carefree and playful environment into a serious problem. In your childhood you need things to do. You need fun. You need friends and because of moving Bruno was sucked away from all that restricted only his family, soldiers and the front yard. He had some interaction with Pavel the family’s servant but to even more damage his innocence he was exposed to violence when Pavel accidentally spills the wine onto Kolter and then is dragged out and thrashed. That would have done some damage but if you think about it… Bruno being young might now be convinced...
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...their music opposed to tradition German culture. There were no specific leaders as the youth group were loosely organised. How did they oppose the Nazis? They beat up Hitler youth members, wrote graffiti on the walls and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets. Were they persecuted? Public execution was held for some of the pirates for the killing of a Hitler Youth leader. How successful? Partially as the public execution put many off but opposition still continued. Swing Youth What were they? They were young people who refused to conform to Hitler Youth values or even of its membership. The swing youth were fans of American jazz and swing. They tended to have long hair and listened to foreign radio which was an offence in war times. How did they oppose the Nazis? They listened to and recorded songs from foreign radios. This was considered a huge offence in war time. They also set up swing club which was tolerated until 1940 and it went “underground” after. Were they persecuted? Himmler threatens the ring leader stating those taking part in the swing movement will be sent to concentration camps with beating and harsh labour. How successful? No as swing movement still continued underground. White rose movement What were they? They were a small group of Munich students led by Hans and Sophie Scholl. Their aim was to shame German people into protesting against Nazis and overthrow Hitler. How did they oppose the Nazis? They gave out Anti-Nazi leaflets around the University...
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...place. The encouragement of marrying at a young age, and getting a proper family dates back to 1933, from when Hitler first rose to power, and the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage was introduced. This law specified that all newly married couples would get a government loan of 1000 marks which was about 9 months average income. This loan was not to be simply paid back. The birth of one child meant that 25% of the loan did not have to be paid back. Two children meant that 50% of the loan need not be paid back. Four children meant that the entire loan was cleared. In another sense, it was logical for the families to reproduce in order to have a stable life. Hitler’s policies mainly revolved around the main idea of producing more children in the country, in order to have more mother and more soldiers. With more young boys and girls, Germany was gaining more soldiers and mothers. Before becoming eligible men and women, all of the youth had to go through specific programs where they would gain more knowledge and learn new policies. The programs were called “Hitler Youth”. In the first few years the programs were launched, they were strictly for the boys, where they were physically fit and prepared to become an entitled soldier. The program for boys was longer, and they had to go through three main stages of the program; Pimpfen (6-10), Deustche Jungvolk (10-14) and Hitler Jugend (14-18). However, in 1928 the program was instituted to girls as well. For them, they only had to go...
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...after WWI when an influx of French-Senegalese occupation soldiers and their families moved to the Rhineland in Germany. Compared to the United States, Germany was a relatively welcoming place for blacks in the 1920’s and many American musicians and entertainers took their skills to Berlin and other major cities where Jazz was on the rise. Throughout the 1920s Jazz became a very prominent part of German entertainment and nightlife. With the introduction of the radio, German’s had easy access to the American greats they idolized such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. The Weimar Republic, as Germany was known at the time, associated jazz with the modern era of progressivism. This more tolerable environment didn’t last long however. With Hitler and the Nazi party taking control of Germany, things rapidly changed for the black community. More and more negrophobia surfaced, and blacks started to become linked or associated with the Jews. This link surfaced through the Jazz music that the nation shared during the previous decade, as many Jews also began playing and performing the music. This link led to the afro-deutsche...
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...Common Themes in The Hunger Games and Hitler Youth Two of the summer reading books, The Hunger Games and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadows, share common themes. The themes of rebellion, resistance, morality, government censorship, and oppression will be explored in this essay. In The Hunger Games, rebellion and resistance were the most dominant themes. The way that the Districts rebelled against the Capitol is strikingly similar to some of the people who tried to resist Hitler’s reign as chancellor during World War II. This is a very important theme because rebellion is what caused the Capitol to create the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games were created as a punishment for the rebellion of the Districts against the Capitol. Without rebellion, there would have been no Games for the tributes to compete in. There were also several times in The Hunger Games when Katniss rebelled and tried to resist the Capitol’s control. Early in the book, Katniss went outside the government’s fence to hunt. When Katniss was showing off her skills to the sponsors, she rebelled against them when they didn’t pay any attention to her. She shot the apple in the pig’s mouth as an act of rebellion. Also, when Rue died, Katniss covered Rue’s body in flowers. She knew this would make the Capitol angry. Also, at the end of the Games, after Katniss learned that she and Peeta couldn’t both win, she threatened suicide by eating the berries. This act of defiance showed how Katniss didn’t...
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