What was Life in the Hitler Youth Actually Like? 

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Ukraine had lots of these camps

What a story! Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

Sad, sick and disgraceful. Poor Hans having to experience that at 8 years old, even sadder for the dead from the concentration camp fished out of the river for mass burial. Sadder still to think that the German state exterminated 6 million innocent men, women and children alongside all the other atrocities committed by the Third Reich.

Iam pretty sure that what happened in the camps was kept a secret from the public so WHY leave evidence??? 🤨

Hilarious you must be older than dirt

My great grandfather was in the Hitler Youth as well. He had to pick up the discarded pieces of concentration camp victims who had been frozen solid and then shattered!

that's very interesting that she enjoyed it. has she held onto any of the (extremely!) negative aspects of the nazi's mindset?

@@archgirl7797 she mostly got away from it, but still held on to a bit of racism and excessive patriotism until her death at age 90. I remember my father and her constantly arguing about it, since he was a big hippie in the '60s and had huge resentment toward that line of thinking. She had an inherent distrust of Turks and Romani and always insisted the Germans were better at everything than anyone else. As she got older we mostly just let it slide, she was still a kind lady at heart.

@@archgirl7797 Erm, they deliberately made BDM and Hitlerjugend an enjoyable experience because for the ideology lessons to take hold you had to have a sense of being part of something attractive and worthwhile.

i wonder how she'd feel abt ppl throwing around the name Nazi like a beachball at a concert these days!

same with my grandmother her family was anti-nazi so she just kept her mouth shut and did what she was told, she says she made boots and stuff.

Btw the Canadian woman he married was born Jewish. She converted to Christianity as a teenager.

One of my relatives lived in Germany as a Turk, he married a German woman during Hitler's time and had a child, then this child was expelled from the Hitler youth because he was Half-German who had joined Hitler's youth. Returned to Turkey and died here his name is Johannes Ruppert. Greeting from Turkey

@@jrmckim Your great uncle was a very lucky man to be born to such perceptive and caring parents.

Did he survive?

Lol 😅

23:10 beautiful 😂

Be careful of brain blaze, or whatever it’s called

Yes! I found him via The Casual Criminalist channel. I thought he was a very posh English man. Very proper. Then I found his other channels. 😂😂😂

Lool I’ve only been able to find like 3 of em this one, warographics n another one. Can anybody plz drop some @‘s fa me too look up? Simon is one of the very few honestly real dope RU-vidrs out there n im not the biggest fan of a lot of the bs that honestly be on here.

Ive asked a teacher that. Shes told me they couldnt go into to much details on every conflict otherwise theyd never get to certain conflicts by the end of the year.

@@mr.pickles810 There's a lot of history.

Yeah, you only have to worry if you’re family was Jewish. 😂

@@maximilianbourgh8345 sorry babes but more then just the Jewish we’re targeted. The Jehovah, Romanians, people of color, gays/theys, people with health issues, addictions, and then towards the end of the war all it would take was saying the wrong joke in front of someone and you could be sentenced to death for defeatism/defamation, or undermining military forces.

@@maximilianbourgh8345 pretty sure you'd also have to worry if someone said your family was against the nazis too

The Pro-Nazi camp property is now a private park called "River Park (had been "Grafton Dells" when I grew up). (I don't believe current ownership has anything to do the Bund.) Relatives of a neighbor down the street from where I grew up ran the camp. It was very divisive at the time in the German community. I believe when the U.S. started involvement in WWII, the camp was very quickly shut down and the some people involved in the camp imprisoned. During the war, there was a large fox farm in the area whose labor was the non-hardcore German POWs. The remnants still existed when I was a kid in the late 1970's; it had unusually high fences - for the POWs, not the foxes. Security was minimal; I heard the POWs got to have Christmas dinner with locals, many of which who spoke German. The POWs sometimes faced a worse fate when they were returned to Germany at the end of the war - particularly if they ended up in Soviet occupied East Germany.

There were many fascists in America then, Charles Lindbergh being one of them.

Many white Americans have German heritage

Your grandfather was a Nazi.

@Nefarion do you know what his stance was/later became/is on all the political and ideological stuff about Nazi Germany?

Wow very interesting. Definitely want to talk to him or have a question answered!

AND who runs Tiktok?

Winnie the Shit

Hence the drag queen story hour, gay pride promotion and BLM indoctrination in western schools presently.

I feel to see who you might think "own" the youth these days the same way Hitler did the Hitler Youth

@@rogerpenske2411 And he loves to see everything burn. Especially books.

Did you ask him if he regretted being one?

@@tims4502 To answer your question I will relate another story. He would say during conversations about the war, "You know, Hitler wasn't that bad of a guy. He did a lot for Germany. I don't think he murdered six million Jews, Maybe six hundred thousand, but not six million, that would be too much." I chocked it up to his experience being indoctrinated and his experience before, during and after the war. He served on a German destroyer that was bottled up in port in Greece. When the collapse was imminent they were all told to make their way home as best they could. The ship couldn't leave dock as it would be destroyed immediately. So on the march through Yugoslavia they were picked up by the red army. They were all sent to slave labor camps in Russia. Of the several hundred men he was taken with, only a handful survived to return home. When they were released, they were simply let out of the gates and told, "go home." Many of the survivors died of exposure and starvation trying to make the trip. This is not a judgement call on his or anyone's beliefs or actions, just a little information as to how he viewed the world. He would also get angry when people would talk about starvation in Greece. He would say, "I was there, the shops were full of food." Granted I would say what he saw with his two eyes, being an occupier, in a place where there was money would be vastly different than a poor Greek in the countryside. But this made him suspicious of other reports about atrocities. On one side, the Allies, (USSR) Brutalized him. On the other side the Axis (Germany) seemed to be successful according to his own experience. So no, I don't think he regretted being a Hitler Youth. (I am in NO WAY excusing the Nazis, Germany in WW2 or the evil they perpetrated. I am simply trying to explain the perspective of a man who had been indoctrinated into the cult of personality of Adolf Hitler and how he viewed the world ever after.)

Simon's deadpan delivery...🤣🤣🤣 LEGEND!

Stalin was indeed a great humanitarian, probably no one has killed more communists than Stalin.

Good old Uncle Joe.

Good to work with a Nazi? F her

Small Christian villages have always been Germany's saving grace.

@@aliciabell6688 🤣🤣 you think there's a difference between differing ideological indoctrination and brainwashing? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my uncle's dad left Germany out of hatred for the filthy stinking nazis. My uncle was the husband of my mum's sister so I have no German heritage. My uncle's dad hated the nazis, my uncle hated the nazis, and I had an uncle who was a blood relation and he was one of the few kicking nazis in the arse. With the exception of people like Schindler and Rabe, there's nothing good or inspiring about such vile hatred puke's of humans.

@@lazyishardwork typical response of kind

Yes, imagine being told from birth that your group were the chosen people and all others existed as cattle/slaves before you. That would be pretty messed up.

"I didn't say we weren't _fun,_ but fun or not pirates are still the baddies!"

​@@vaughanstarr3725 The bullshit about the racial superiority of whites was very much the standard ideology of all white Europeans everywhere during colonial times. Just that the other European nations never started to apply it to other "white" Europeans, only to non European peoples that looked significantly different. The nazis started to put racial labels and value differences to Europeans, too. They did the same thing everyone else did, but put it one step further. Plus, antisemitism was pretty common everywhere in Europe too. The natives of Congo could tell the Jews that the Belgians did to them pretty much the same as the nazis did to them.

@@vaughanstarr3725 Jews called, they wanted their "chosen nation" status back.

Apart from the antisemitic indoctrination that's very much the paramilitary training Baden-Powell proposed in "Scouting for Boys".

From a pedagogical standpoint, the Nazi regime *did* neglect the regular education of their kids. Even ignoring for a while the horrors of genocide and time wasted into indoctrination, randomly eliminating competent teachers from the workforce is stupid beyond belief and can only result in loss of critical mass and eventual defeat in all fields (not just military, but also economic). That’s why denazification didn’t entail outright getting rid of everyone and anyone associated with the NSDΑP, but only the actual criminals - war criminals and otherwise -, as that would make matters even worse and likely turn post-war Germany if not into an agrarian state as had been proposed by some thinking heads, at least into a backwater of (even more) resentment and a potential hotspot for further violence and misery. It must’ve made Vergangenheitsbewältigung that much more difficult of a process, but it also meant that Germany came into its own again and ceased to be a PITA for everyone around them (especially after reunification and the definitive settlement of the Oder-Neisse Line question). And that’s also why modern-day Russia is about to lose their latest war, as their military doesn’t have enough critical mass (having to kowtow to dictators’ stupid whims does that to you eventually) and their workforce also took a huge hit, with the most qualified people fleeing in droves. Heck, we can also take another German state as a middle-of-the-road case: even the DDR’s leadership (itself not a great example, as it was as much of a dictatorship as the Third Reich before it or as Mother USSR) understood this and tried to prevent Republikflucht by any means necessary… 🤦‍♂️

@@Mainyehc I can only speak to what I know. Half of my family were school children during the pre war and war years and they all received a good education and were productive citizens afterword. Likewise the German workforce after the war did not suffer from uneducated workers. Perhaps the propaganda that was taught did not interfere with subjects that mattered. Anybody who has kids in school today knows that they teach a lot of useless BS. Maybe the Nazis just replaced one pile of BS with their own pile of BS and kids learned to read, write and do math just like they always had.

Not you defending your Nazi grandpa 😂 How awkward. If his education had been adequate, he would have taught you how to speak about this period on history with a bit more respect.

Lots of us came to the US under these circumstances.

My opa was a youth leader apparently

Who knows how much of it was genuine remorse and how much was skin-saving rhetoric…relying on the ‘Madman Hitler’ defence like so many of his Generals 🤔. That said, Schirach’s words do indeed read very well and I’m glad he escaped the noose in what was understandably a vengeful and politically motivated show trial.

He stood up for his charges and deflected any and all blame they could receive onto himself. He gets credit for that. But "my fault" doesn't mean "I'm sorry".

@@cheeseburger6117 not sure you read the whole testimony. He said he did it because he believed in Hitler and that it was wrong. He said that the Holocaust was evil and that he helped enable it.

Tee-hee!

23:09

Are you sure about that? Maybe the indoctrination wasn’t as penetrant as in Nazi Germany? I’m German and here we have some families whom kids make the Nazi salute and repeat all the ultra nationalistic stuff their parents tell them. (It’s not a big problem here but it still happens) Maybe it’s just because it’s from their close relatives but political stuff definitely sticks to them. And I assume that the HJ was pretty much a family substitute.

@@marcel_kleist Level of political indoctrination was roughly comparable. Being German perhaps you can ask your fellow contrymen from the former East.. This is valid both for purely youth organizations and technical / sport organizations like GST in GDR (and other DOSAAF clones).

Yes, I know a few people who were in Young Pioneers as children and they had the same experience. They enjoyed it for the fun; the summer camps, games, sport, skills and crafts. The propaganda stuff was just something you expected and mostly tuned out.

The politics probably wasnt as extreme

That would be so interesting to talk to someone like that! Quite the opportunity!

@@jewel65 I'm very interested in WWII history so I had some choice questions and he did tell me he was questioned after the war and described that and further re education and undoctrination

JoJo Rabbit was interesting to see I don't recall seeing any other movie depict what it might have been like in the Hitler youth

I was about to comment about how I had just watched that film recently, then I saw this one.

such a good movie. I also really enjoyed what we doing the shadows

Except without the ironic, mocking satirical post-modern (and yes … very funny) veneer added to it by Taika Waititi. I think 21st century mainstream liberals have developed a thick cynical outer facade and have a really hard time accurately depicting or even watching accurate depictions of such things as the Hitler Youth, enacted with the serious earnestness and discipline which they certainly were by the original participants. It makes us so uncomfortable because we feel our own adjacency to it; our implication in so many of its rotten ideas and principles; “principles” that we barely conceal from ourselves with a thinnest tissue of bourgeois wealth and civility. When that middle class bourgeois wealth is threatened, or stripped away though … as has been happening now in America (and other neoliberal capitalist democracies) for two generations now, we see how quickly we too adopt and are consumed by fascist tendencies. Our first cynical impulse is to deny the very possibility of this phenomenon by adopting satire to distance ourselves from it or critique it as only a problem for a subset of society that is not “us” (the “rubes” or “rednecks” etc.) After forty years of such liberal comic critique … Carson became Letterman became Colbert … it should be clear that satire is a cynical response to deny our own culpability in the economic systems of oppression that is causing resentments to grow into fascism in the first place among an ever growing segment of the population. After forty years now perhaps a better reply than satirically mocking the fascist is to seek out the rentier capitalist that’s transforming the working people of all races genders orientations etc. into an increasingly feudal state of debt servitude in the so-called “first-world” capitalist nations. And before anyone gets started … there’s no religious code word employed here. Modern late 20th century, Post-Reagan-Thatcher, Post-Welch, Neoliberal Capitalist ideology has no trouble embracing and including (and now with the power of the internet even commodifying) any necessary religion or race or culture or identity and thus subsuming it to its own material prerogatives … it’s the hierarchy imposed by adopting the ideology of the 1% and the divisive self-oppressive myths they propagandize to the working people that are the root of fascism and Hitler Youth type movements. The myths are stories told to impose a discipline that reinforces the wealth of the ruling 1%. This is what must be resisted. Not the people that join the groups. The tiny number of ideologues that organize them.

Hans Gruber now I have a gun ho ho ho.

Now that I see this again, she passed 2 weeks ago, 1 day after her 98th birthday. I regret not getting all her stories of the time taped, but her mind hadn't been lucid enough for a few years.

Everything you say is true. My mother had a German friend who attended Camp Siegfried with her brothers and sister every year. In the mid-1930’s, my mother, her brother, two cousins, and neighborhood teens went as guests to an end of session celebration at the camp. She distinctly remembered the swastikas on flags and banners, martial music, and marching. When her mother (my grandmother) found out where they’d been, she was NOT happy about it and had “words” with the neighbor who’d provided the transportation from Riverhead. This was the last time in which there were known relatives in Poland. After Poland was invaded, these people seemingly disappeared, but it was known to the older people in the US what they thought of the new German chancellor. Numerous attempts after the war to reestablish contact met with failure and pretty much concluded with a great aunt’s visit to Poland in 1978. She ascertained the deaths of the middle-aged couple in 1940. As to their children, without names, it proved impossible to trace them. The land was no longer in their surname in the 1950’s or since. (Remember, Poland was still a Communist country in 1978.) Unfortunately, Mom passed at age 98 in January and didn’t leave any of this in writing. I’m in the process of writing down the stories I heard from her and my grandmother, great aunts and my uncle lest they all be lost to time.

Yea bad situation

We're already repeating many aspects. Children are being recruited and indoctrinated into gender ideology. Those that don't go along are removed from class and punished for going against the state approved truths. Parents are being condemned by their children for not going along. Companies are required to hire pure aryan p... i mean, diverse people. Those that disagree with the the State approved ideology are banned for hate speech. Labeled undesirables and bigots. They don't deserve a platform. They must be hidden from society. Parents are having their children taken from them for not aiding their child's gender transition. Accused of child abuse, the state removes the child from the parents. The Pure blood aryans.. i mean, the trans and gay community has free reign to do as they please. Even twerk nude in front of children at parades. I've made my point.

That's definitely true. A lot of people welcomed the Germans just because it meant throwing off the Soviet oppression. I don't want to blame them too much for it, because they had a point.

in the sense that they were a youth organisation that predates hitler youth, they were. not sharing ideals is not a factor, and is hardly surpiring since if they did have matching ideals then the latter would've had a harder time recruiting members compared to the established and known group. the video also describes them as having been started in opposition to the earlier group.

Children can also learn to count by noting the number disappearing hair follicles.

there's no difference between dictators

@lazyishardwork Dick-Taters are basically the same, good thing Sam Gamgee told us what to do with them taters "boil 'em, mash 'em, stick them in a stew". 🤣

Putin trying to paint Ukrainians as being Nazis looks very stupid to anyone who understands the history. Putin looks a lot like Hitler on a geopolitical or strategic level.

Putin is a child compared to Hitler and Stalin

@@bikerdude923 Putin Tay Toes?!?!

Abortion was banned for ”Aryans," but of course encouraged for anyone else.

I was wondering too. Perhaps avoiding the YT algorithm solitary confinement at the mention of ‘God’ in his videos?

And in the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976) under Mao Zedong. Once the parent’s generation had been used to enact the Great Leap Forward (the Industrialization of the country 1958 - 1962) Mao cynically decided their tired bodies (and possible suspect political ideas) were no longer needed an ideological purification was promoted where children and young people educated only with the new political ideas (students were required to have a copy of “The Little Red Book” of quotes from Mao) would denounce their teachers and parents generation to the political police. Ugh.

@@JAI_8 Pierre Trudeau loved Mao

@@simonrancourt7834 do you know the context of that, and what he specifically liked about him?

This

It probaby was sung by the Hitler Youth, but it's origins are much earlier (lyrics were written in 1847, music was added to the poem in 1876).

@@jhdix6731 That's good! I feel better now. I still remember how to sing it in German.

it is a good example of the importance of legitimate trials.

They burned everything liberal and progressive. But I have a feeling you already knew that