: Nazi Youth Policies and Education Assessment

1. 3 paragraphs explaining in detail how the Nazis attracted young people to their regime. Include the following points:
-why the Nazis wanted to control young people
-how they set about doing it
-what the attractions of the youth movements were
2.Add a fourth paragraph of how the Nazis were rejected by some young people.

After international education, the older generations of Germany were more aware of what was going on in the world around them, and questioned, greatly, with back up evidence, the ideology of the Nazis. Since a person's personality and overall decisive opinion making, as well as general knowledge, are mostly made within the first 20 years of their lives, and more so in the first 5, adults were much more resistant to the differences in views that the Nazis pressured. Instead, the Nazis targeted the youth, at such a young age that their commitment to the third Reich would expose itself at the base of their education and thought process. The young were easy to control, and take favour, and would serve as a more organised and loyal society to the goals of the Nazis.
To undergo such a goal, the regime had to target both the existing educational system, and create a new one, that would take a step further into effecting the lives of children without exposure to other ideals. The curriculum and teachers had been changed to increase nationalism in the children while training them to unconditionally serve the state. By setting up youth programs, that most male children did attend, the Nazis had achieved a new generation, that was idealy and virtually, loyal to Hitler.
These youth programs were for the older children, who may have already been partially educated by Nazi standards, that were either naturaly attracted because of there acceptance of Hitler, or because it offered a greater education that brought many people into a community that withheld many activities.
Resistance had come from the global revolution in dance, music and culture, the swing movement. The passive discusion of personal lives, Westernized dance, and Enlgish and American music removed nationalism from those active in this movement. Not organised or violent, it still posed a threat to the absolute cultural control that the Nazis were attempting to seige the populous with. A more violent group, the Eidelweiss Pirates, although not organised, were several teenagers that actively opposed the Nazi Regime. They explored cultural freedom, and at times attacked the youth groups that Nazis had formed in their dissaproval of the direction that Hitler was taking the Country.