ORGANIZATION BOOK OF THE NSDAP, 1938,
Pages 80-81.
The Hitler Youth [HJ] as recruits for future leaders.
To secure for the Party valuable and trained recruits for leadership, suitable Hitler boys of over 17 can be assigned for education and training to leaders from local unit leaders on upwards.
The HJ boys are exempted from the service in the HJ during the time of assignment to the Party service. The selection will be made by the leader together with the competent HJ leader. Care should be taken that boys from all classes of the people are selected.
After a training period of one to one and a half years, during which the HJ boys are to be familiarized with all practical office
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duties, they are to attend the Gaufuehrer (district leader) school. After termination of the training a detailed aptitude testimonial for each HJ boy is issued and kept at the competent personnel office. The HJ boys, so trained, are then assigned to a local unit as block leaders and should be promoted later on according to aptitude and openings. * * *
Besides above-mentioned conditions for selections in general, a process of elimination results from the fact that from the youth on the German is cared for, guided, and educated by the Party.
First they are assembled in the Jungvolk from which the youth people are transferred into the HJ.
The boy of the HJ enters the SA, SS, the NSKK or the NSFK or participates in the work in affiliated organizations of the Party. After labor and army service he returns for service to the Party and its affiliations, respectively.
In selecting people for the leadership corps of the party, including all organizations, the individual is examined according to character, straightforward behavior, honesty, ability of understanding, ability of leadership, communal feeling, reliability, sense of justice, independent thinking and acting, and general knowledge, bravery, and determination.
Extract from NSDAP book, on a program to select and train Hitler Youth members for service in the party
Date: 1938
Literal Title: Organizationsbuch der NSDAP . . . The Hitler Youth (HJ) as recruits for future leaders.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2401
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450293