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10 unusual facts about Hitler Youth


Alfons Heck

Alfons Heck (3 November 1928 – 12 April 2005) was a German who was a member of Hitler Youth, eventually becoming a Hitler Youth Officer and a fanatical adherent of Nazism’s ideologies.

Dave Blalock

Blalock appeared in the theatrical production of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein of Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll (2005–2007) where among a cast of ten people out of real life - such as a conservative politician unveiling his election campaign strategies, a German former Hitler Youth, Weimar's former chief police officer - to tell his story of a fragging in the midst of Intrigue, War & Death.

Gerhard Sommer

In July 1933, when he was 12 years old, Sommer became a member of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), where he obtained the rank of Jungzugführer in the Deutsche Jungvolk.

Hans Roland

Whilst Roland joined the Hitler Youth his family joined an underground movement to assist Jews to leave Germany.

Harald Rohlig

The son of a United Methodist Church minister who opposed Hitler's regime, Rohlig was forced to join the Hitler Youth at age of 10 when his family's food and basic necessities were restricted.

Heinz Dörmer

He and his group tried to stay independent, but in October 1933 they were forced to join the Hitler Youth.

Hitler Youth

Based in Munich, Bavaria, it served to train and recruit future members of the Sturmabteilung (or "Storm Regiment"), the adult paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.

Ordensburg Krössinsee

In 1937, the cadres began sharing the facility with members of the Hitlerjungen or Hitler Youth.

Qinglong, Liaoning

The town was to be the locus of the so-called Manchurian Youth Corps, a forcible association of young men organized to some degree through the inspiration of the Nazi Hitler Youth.

Willi Stöhr

In 1932, he was made a senior official of the Hitler Youth movement, and in 1933, when the National Socialist movement came to power, he was appointed to administrative position in Frankfurt am Main, and also adjutant to Jakob Sprenger, Gauleiter (regional party head) of Hesse-Nassau.


Die Deutsche Wochenschau

Among the many notable scenes preserved by the newsreel are the Nazi point of view during the Battle of Normandy, the footage of Hitler and Mussolini right after the 20 July plot, and the last footage (No. 755) of Hitler awarding the Iron Cross to Hitler Youth volunteers in the garden of the Reich Chancellery shortly before the Battle of Berlin.

Hartmann Lauterbacher

Hartmann Lauterbacher (24 May 1909 in Reutte, Tyrol – 12 April 1988 in Seebruck, Bavaria) was a high area leader (Obergebietsführer) of the Hitler Youth, as well as Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig and an SS Gruppenführer.

Hauenštejn

In World War II it was used by the Hitler Youth and it was also used for snake experiments – a snake from the genus of Coluber was set in the location to fight the adder and a kind of serum was developed there that Rommel used in Africa.

Raul Hilberg

Since most of the early functionalist historians were West German, it was often enough for intentionalist historians, especially for those outside Germany, to note that men such as Broszat and Hans Mommsen had spent their adolescence in the Hitler Youth and then to say that their work was an apologia for National Socialism.

Wolfgang Jörchel

In May 1934, he became a sports leader in the Hitler Youth and also joined the SA remaining an active member until June 1935, when he left only to later join the SS-VT in October 1935, with the rank of Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant).