Hitler Youth generation
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The members of the Hitler-youth generation (born approximately between 1922 and 1930), experienced their childhood and youth in the 'Third Reich'. In school and youth movements they were socialized in the ideology of National Socialism. As children and youths these were, according to Nazi propaganda, the 'guarantors of the future', and they were raised to establish a new society. Their self-confidence was developed and strengthened by the establishment of youth movements which had not been available to previous generations. [...] National Socialist pedagogues were also successful in arousing enthusiasm in these young people for the Nazi
regular army.[1]
The size of this generation is estimated at approximately nine million and the following cohort is sometimes described as the War generation. In contrast with older age groups it is also argued that the Hitler Youth generation emerged from the
References
- JSTOR 40179226.
Further reading
- Von Plato, Alexander (1995). "The Hitler Youth generation and its role in the two post-war German states". In Roseman, Mark (ed.). Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany, 1770-1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 210–226. ISBN 9780521441834.
- McDougall, A. (2008). "A Duty to Forget? The 'Hitler Youth Generation' and the Transition from Nazism to Communism in Postwar East Germany, c. 1945-49". German History. 26 (1): 24–46. .
- Moses, A.D. (1999). "The Forty-Fivers: A Generation Between Fascism and Democracy". German Politics & Society. 17 (1 (50)): 94–126. JSTOR 23737346.
- Sahrakorpi, Tiia (2020). "Memory, Family, and the Self in Hitler Youth Generation Narratives". Journal of Family History. 45 (1): 88–108. .
- Kohut, Thomas August (2012). A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300192452.