Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Alice Hamilton: “The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength”

Rob Edwards

Alice Hamilton: “The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength”

  • Influenced by widespread Nazi propaganda and led astray by their youthful idealism, the youth of Germany were some of the most ardent supporters of Nazism

  • The streets of every German city swarmed with brown-shirts (Nazi uniform), were filled with marches and parades

  • The swastika flag flapped on every building

  • These youth that are now nazis were children during the war – children of both the poor and the middle class

  • Fathers were away at war and mothers were busy working, so they came into manhood in a country that had no use for them

  • The Nazi party provided a sense of belonging and importance that had long been lusted after by these kids

  • Hitler was more successful than the communists because his propaganda was more effective since it glorified Germany instead of trying to explain the internationalism of communism

  • Hitler made each insignificant, poverty stricken, jobless youth feel himself one of the greatest of the earth

  • Hitler himself provides an object for hero worship

  • They really believe that Hitler will bring about a genuine socialism without class warfare

  • All around Germany, youth nazi movements and uprising can be seen in schools, churches, etc

    • The students of Kiel university successfully brought about the discharge of 28 jewish professors

  • This revolt of youth against modern education has always been a part of Hitler's program, because he dreams of a new pedagogy that focuses on physical prowess, and leaves intellectual stuff to specialists

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