History glossary

Hitler Youth

the Nazi youth organisation used to recruit and indoctrinate young people.

Category: Youth organisation
Region: Germany
Date range: 1920s-1945

What it means

The Hitler Youth was the Nazi youth organisation for boys, with parallel structures for younger boys and for girls through the League of German Girls. It combined sport, hiking, uniforms, ceremony, physical training, and ideological instruction to bind young people to Hitler and the Nazi state.

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