"The Youth Who Are Hitler's Strength" Hamilton

“The Youth Who Are Hitler’s Strength” Hamilton

Thesis: Since most young people were among the most fervent supporters of Nazism, Hamilton wrote this article to show how Nazism exploited patriotism and idealism.

• Hilter’s movement is called a youth movement, for streets were swarmed with “brown shirts”


• Two calls to action came to these supportive youths




• One from Communists


• The other from Hitler




• Both appealed to hatred, both held out an ideal of a changed Germany, but Hitler’s propaganda was cleverer than Communists’ because his program is narrower and more concrete


• Hitler repudiates internationalism


• Hitler told the young men that the fate of Germany was in their hands


• Hitler’s programs purged all selfishness and materialism




• They repudiated liberalism, for they dislike capitalism


• Hitler censored the press, however, many tales of Storm Troopers were heard


• Ardently supported the movement against intellectualism, against scientific objectivity, against all that German universities had stood for


• Revolt of youth against modern education is part of Hitler’s program




• The most important subject is the new curriculum of history, which needs emphasis on German heroes, inventors, rulers, poets, and artists


• For girls, education ends in a year of domestic service with training for wifehood and motherhood


• A “violent, fanatical, youthful despot now rules Germany”