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Hitler Youth
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Hitler Youth

 German Hitler-Jugend

Organization set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 for educating and training male youths aged 13–18 in Nazi principles. Under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), by 1935 it included almost 60% of all German boys, and by 1936 it became a state agency that all young “Aryan” Germans were expected to join. The youths lived a Spartan life of dedication, fellowship, and Nazi conformity, with little parental guidance. A parallel organization, the League of German Girls, trained girls for domestic duties and motherhood.
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By the 1950s, British social welfare experts worried that these "African equivalent[s] of the English teddy-boy" were part of a "dangerous mob element" that might attach themselves to demagogic African politicians: "They are the unformed Hitlerjugend, as yet, their uniform jeans and a wide hat, their march the gun-on-hip cowboy slouch, waiting for a Fuehrer to give respectability to their longing to be admired, to be feared, to have a place in the sun.
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The miraculous shrine of Liche by Suski, Pawel / Catholic Insight
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