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Hitler Youth Hitler Youth members marching to Nürnberg, Germany, c. 1933–38.

Hitler Youth

Nazi organization
Also known as: Hitler-Jugend
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Hitler Youth, organization set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 for educating and training male youth in Nazi principles. Under the leadership of Baldur von Schirach, head of all German youth programs, the Hitler Youth included by 1935 almost 60 percent of German boys. On July 1, 1936, it became a state agency that all young “Aryan” Germans were expected to join. Upon reaching his 10th birthday, a German boy was registered and investigated (especially...

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