Artur Axmann - national leader of the Hitler Youth

[pieter]

This interview of 1995 is interesting for people who understand German, because it gives an inside in the Weimar republic and Nazi Germany in which the Nazi party NSDAP and it's organisation existed and it says something about the Nazi youth in the Weimar republic and Nazi Germay. It shows Artur Axmann National socialist vision from a Hitler Youth, NSDAP (Nazi movement) and thus German official position from 30 January 1933 until the Final dissolution on 23 May 1945. Many people forget that the Nazi party NSDAP existed from 24 February 1920 until 10 October 1945, and that thus the influence of Nazism in it's influence and presence lasted longer than The Third Reich (1933-1945). The indoctrination began during the Twenties.

National Socialist Schoolchildren's League


The emblem of the Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund (1929-1933)

For instance the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), known under the acronyms NSS and also, more rarely NSSB, was a National Socialist organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council and child protection system in Germany from 1929 till 1933. The league began roughly around 1927 as the Hitler Jugend-Schülergruppen. It was established as the Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund by Adrian von Renteln in 1929 by unifying the scattered groups under one authority.

In 1929 Von Renteln became the leader of the Hitler Youth, an organisation he would clearly favour and to which he would give increasingly wider powers. Von Renteln would stay as leader (Reichsführer) of the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League until 16 June 1932.

The NSS targeted small children of schoolgoing age who went on to become the harbingers of Nazism.

The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League was merged to the Hitler Youth on 20 May 1933. The event was marked with a youth-group celebration.



Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to the war's end in 1945. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsführer.



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Axmann

[pieter]

[Jaga]

Pieter, I started watching the uinterview with Axmann. I am glad that it has captions in German. He has this gentle look which sometimes grows with age, so it is hard to believe that he was a Hitleryouth leader. But even his young picture shows him with a nice smile. So I guess, he might be charismatic in nature. Hitleryouth was a terrible organization, propaganda and hate driven....

He wanted to the the train driver as a kid.

[pieter]

[pieter]

[pieter]

[pieter]

May 30, 2019 4:48:18 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Pieter, I started watching the uinterview with Axmann. I am glad that it has captions in German. He has this gentle look which sometimes grows with age, so it is hard to believe that he was a Hitleryouth leader. But even his young picture shows him with a nice smile. So I guess, he might be charismatic in nature. Hitleryouth was a terrible organization, propaganda and hate driven....

He wanted to the the train driver as a kid.

Jaga,

The other Hitler Jugend leader Baldur von Schirach also had decent, sophisticated and gentle looks, but he lead the youth state agency of the nazi's in which all young “Aryan” Germans were expected to join.


Baldur von Schirach visits a Children’s Evacuation Home (Kinderlandverschickungsheim) (Homes in Weimar county and Hanover) in the summer of 1942.

Upon reaching his 10th birthday, a German boy was registered and investigated (especially for “racial purity”) and, if qualified, inducted into the Deutsches Jungvolk (“German Young People”). At age 13 the youth became eligible for the Hitler Youth, from which he was graduated at age 18. Throughout these years he lived a spartan life of dedication, fellowship, and Nazi conformity, generally with minimum parental guidance. From age 18 he was a member of the Nazi Party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP; National Socialist German Workers Party) and served in the state labour service and the armed forces until at least the age of 21.


Trumpets & Drums / Jungvolk / Vienna /1938

Two leagues also existed for girls. The League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) trained girls ages 14 to 18 for comradeship, domestic duties, and motherhood. Jungmädel (“Young Girls”) was an organization for girls ages 10 to 14.



Cheers,
Pieter

[pieter]

[karl]

Pieter

It was good of you for your presentation of these not so popular programmes of those days that seem to foster so much latten hate these days. Today is one thing, long ago in those days of early Hitler and his youth programmes were of a different time, a different flavour and, most important, an opportunity for young people no matter their family situation rich or poor.

For not only did AH bring Germany out from extreme poverty, but allowed the country {meaning people} to rebuild not only a modern way of life, but a new prosperity that had been destroyed in the war. If AH had died in 1938, he would have been declared a hero. The vastly declared business of master race was simply trash, it was designed to bring about unity of the people, some thing for them to reach up to as to rebuild self esteme, is was nonsense of course.

In as for as the AH programmes of some such as the Hitler Youth and such, were good programmes. For it made rich and poor with the same opportunities such as training in the arts, group bands and learning to work together. The primary target was teaching to work together as team work and organization. These programmes offered to young people some thing to build up pride of accomplishment, memories, and chance to be part of some thing.

Long long after the war, my self was to meet some of these people in business. They displayed their youth training in the manner of very good organizers, discipline and character.

In as much as the later war years, this I have little to offer for my life was in a different world at that time in as well as my years were much too young to know and understand.

Karl