![]() He said in his speech at the Reichsparteitag in 1935, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” The fact that the Hitler Youth played such a crucial role in Hitler’s grand scheme for Nazi Germany indicates a disturbing manipulation of children’s brains, brains that were not yet fully developed, were incredibly susceptible to brainwashing, and were easily co-opted by a powerful authority figure. ![]() The Nazis had extremely ambitious objectives, including the firm belief that it was crucial to preserve the Aryan race by protecting it from what they deemed “undesirables.” Hitler knew that his success rested in large part on inculcating his German Nationalist principles and anti-Semitism into the minds of the youngest of German citizens. The Nazi Party, the German fascist political party led by authoritarian leader Adolf Hitler from 1920-1945, was especially notorious for its indoctrination of German youth in order to serve the ultimate goals of their regime. ![]() Throughout history, we find examples where children have been unwitting accomplices to the atrocities of cruel regimes. ![]()
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