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223The most important youth organization of Hitler‟s movementis the National Socialist Student League, founded bya student in 1926. While the youth of the proletariat followsmostly the red flag of the Communists, the majority of theuniversity students have sworn allegiance to Hitler. Outof a total of some 140,000 students at the end of 1931, some100,000 students of the schools of higher learning in Germanybelonged to the Hitler groups. The Central Student organizationof the German Universities is in the hands of theHitlerites and of their allies, the Hugenbergites. Severaluniversities with long traditions of liberalism are countedin the Nazi columns.Hitler has adopted the policy of picturesque exaggerationas a feature of his policy in dealing with youth. In thegeneral political warfare of the Nazi chieftains exaggerationtakes the place of wartime camouflage. The armyleader has a right to mislead the enemy and even his ownsoldiers, if mendacity serves a higher ethical purpose. Butexaggeration in Hitler‟s youth movement has become an artwhich has drawn on the psychology of young boys. Theenemy is described as the devil, while the political friendsoars to heaven in a grand finale of blissful music.The greatest virtue of the Nazi youth is the fanaticismof a religious martyr. Love toward his parents must be castout of his heart if it clashes with the interests of the movement.Hitler is the father and fellow-Nazis are brothers.The family of blood ceases to be a bond and its place is takenby the political family. Race is the god and the party meetingis the divine service.