The Hitler YouthThe beginning of everything seems innocent. We move from transforming play into politics, at home and at school in the Volk and the Third Reich, transforming campsites into pre-military training areas, compressed air weapons into machine guns, choirs into marching exercises, education into indoctrination, attracting boys and girls to Hitler. Young people with uniforms, weekend excursions (health source). Brainwashing children with activities that children enjoy, turning them into Nazis (Source Health). The Hitler Youth Group was part of the systematic way in which the Nazis gained the support of the German people, whose collective silence allowed the Final Solution to occur. The Beginning of the Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth began before the actual war. The Hitler Youth was founded in 1926 (McDougall). They were created to involve children in the Nazi party (Source Health). Hitler wanted to mold the new generation to become “victorious, daring youth, immune to pain”. He felt the need to mold this generation of children to lead them into the Nazi army. They were encouraged to stop looking to other authority figures and start looking to the Nazis, to accept Nazi principles without question (HBC Foundation), and to dedicate themselves to Hitler (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). It was Hitler's way of molding the new generation with his beliefs. False Ideas Hitler Youth propaganda made the idea of ​​the children's program "fun" and not a corrupting way to recruit children into the Nazi Party. They took the fun, everyday activities of childhood and wove them into the Hitler Youth programs (Bartoletti 23). From excursions to camping, from singing to sports (Bartoletti 23). Things that all children and adolescents like (Bartoletti 23). Using sashes, badges, uniforms and... middle of paper......d=122&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=hch&AN=23601025"Hitler Youth." historical clothing: expanded site. HBC Foundation, March 25, 2009. Web. February 28, 2014. McDougall, Alan. "A Duty to Forget? The 'Hitler Youth Generation' and the Transition from Nazism to Communism in Post-War East Germany, circa 1945-49." German History 26.1(2008): 24-46. Premier of academic research. Network. January 30, 2014. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “The Holocaust”. Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143. Accessed February 3, 2014Zapotoczny, Jr., Walter S. "Hitler Youth." Advanced World Book. Book of the World, 2014. Web. 30 January.2014.