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only seven out of a possible twelve million German boys
had joined by 1939 „ Therefore the decree of 25 March
1939 which raade membership compulsory «ma deemed necessary»
At the same timo, those youths who had volunteered before
1938 were organized separately into the so-caL led Stamm
Hitler Jugend (Nuclear Hitler Youth)j members of these
units v/ere considered by the Hauls as the elite of German
youth«, However, the attempt to set tMs croup apart caused
considerable confusion and was finally abandoned»
40 Functions of the Hitler Youth« The task of the
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Hitler Youth, according .to the Organ!sationsbuch der
NSDAP, was to "educate (einfuhren) the entire German youth
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in the National Socialist ideology." By educating a whole
new generation in this way of tliinking, the Nazis hoped to
lay the ideological foundations f©r perpetuation of the
National Socialist state,- Adolf Hitler constantly stressed
in his speeches to the Hitler Xbuth—and with increased
emphasis in the months before the defeat—that they v/ere
the future leaders of Germany and the guarantors of Germany's
future. "In you Germany will live again and when we are
no more than you must take up the banner, which we lifted
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high out of nothingness, into your hands/'
T7' 1943 eait'ioh, p. 437
2, -Hitlar at the 1934 Parteitag of the NSDAP, quoted in
Das Dritte Reich, 1934, p0 2l4
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