1. a) The children are really happy in source 14.35. They don't see anything or believe in anything else then their Hitler. They want their parents to be good Nazis and the children's parents cannot forbid the child to do what all children are doing and cannot refuse him the uniform.
b) The children demand that their parents become good nazis. They parents cannot forbid the child to do what all children are doing and cannot refuse him the uniform which is the child's job. Youth favors the novelty, the drill, the uniform, the camp life, and the face that school and the parental home take a back seat compared to the community. Since the youth people are more easily influences in terms of mood than adults this made getting them on Hitler's side very easy. Youth people were made large promises which for the most part were incapable of fulfillment. They wanted to work but felt irritated by the lack of freedom.
c) Parents were scared for their children. They answered yes many times simply because they were afraid of avowed opponents. Children felt forced and things were changing. There was a sharp decline in participation at Hitler Youth events. Many had resigned their membership and membership due were frequently unpaid. Source 134.38 shows that the little child is being forced by the older army members and he has a gun to his head showing that he has no control.
d) Source 14.24 is a former german student. He says that he never even read Mein Kampf and neither did anyone else in his class. He said that they were supposed to respond "yes sir" which men't that they were naturally obedient, They were supposed to answer like this so they had to out of fear.
e) Hitlers camps were supposed to create enthusiasm, but among working class youths one can ear much criticism. There was continuous force feeding of national socialism and that had the same effect as the heavy emphasis on religious instruction in earlier decades, Parents were scared to answer if they were against hitler so they said yes that they weren't out of fear. Teachers tried everything in order to force children into the hitler youth. Teachers enquired whether or not ones father is a party member or is in the SA or which newspapers are read at home.
f) 14.36, .37, and .39 are all criticism of the youth policies. Children didn't feel safe and parents were scared. Youth was influenced more then older people and the Nazis pushed Hitler on the youth to much which made them change their views. The youth was more questionable because they were being influenced but at home there was a different story. The children had no control and this made them question authority. They didn't even read mein kampf and the children only answered because they were supposed to. They had no idea what they were learning but they knew that they should support Hitler.
2. Yes, the sourced suggest that youth people's reactions to the Nazis changed over time. They were constantly being told what to do in school in the beginning and understood that they should be learning that Hitler is the best but at home they were learning a different story. Children started dropping out of the Hitler youth camps because they didn't have any freedom. They weren't learning in school and shortly started not reading the Mein Kampf book.
3. These two types of sources are not that reliable. German opposition would want to make the germans look bad and that the nazi police were taking over. And the police would want to make the nazis look good and that everything that they wanted to work did work. Both of these sources have different views which would make the sources not that reliable because both of these sources would want to make the other look bad.
4. I believe that the Nazi youth policy was very effective in the beginning. They had alot of support from the children because they were just learning about this. They had taken out all other textbooks and changed everything that had to do with something other then hitler to hitler and the nazis. The children were listening and there were so many of them attending the hitler youth events. But, over time the children obviously would start to realize that this was wrong. Parents would talk at home and children would want freedom. Sooner or later this was bound to come to an end. Hitlers youth events started having less and less people come and children were dropping out. Parents were frightened which made the parents realize that this wasn't best. Children weren't even reading the Mein Kampf book. Teachers had no authority over the children because they could future out how to =force the children into the Hitler Youth.
The sourced on page 290-291 support me as well. The sources say that it was a success in the beginning and many schools supported it but it was varied greatly from school to school and depended a great deal on individual teachers and principals. 95% of the german youth backed the nazis or at least hitler and the opposition for the most part remained vague and diffuse. Many nazis boys and women were in the training and they agreed that this was the best way to show that they supported Hitler . Even though parents were scared to put down their actual views on paper this shows that they were nervous about the consequences showing that the youth policies weren't that effective.
No comments:
Post a Comment