VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER
Berlin edition, 2 May 1937, p. 6, col. 4. Quotation from Speech of Hitler.
"The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unsophisticated and therefore unspoiled. . . . This Reich stands, and it is building
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itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing."
VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER 21 February 1938. Quotation from Speech of Hitler.
"The Naval Hitler Youth comprises 45,000 boys, the Motor Hitler Youth 60,000 boys. As part of the campaign for the encouragement of aviation 55,000 members of the Jungvolk were trained in gliding for group activities; 74,000 boys of the Hitler Youth are organized in its flying units; 15,000 boys passed their gliding test in the year 1937 alone.
"Today 1,200,000 boys of the Hitler Youth receive regular instructions in small-bore .rifle shooting from 7,000 instructors."
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VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER
2 May 1938. Speech of Hitler to the German Youth, p. 2, col. 6.
"Since the victory of the Movement, under whose banner you stand, there has been completed within our people the unification of heart [innere Einigung] of the Germans. And as wages for this work of ours Providence has given us Greater Germany [Grossdeutschland]. This unification is no gift of chance, it is the result of a systematic education of our people by the National Socialist Movement. . . . And this education began with the individual at an age when he is not already burdened with preconceived ideas. The youth is the stone which is to go to the building of our new Reich! You are Greater Germany! In you is being formed the community of the German people. Before the single leader there stands a Reich, before the single Reich stands a people and before the single people stands German youth! When I see you my faith in the future of Germany has no bounds, nothing can shake it. For I know that you will fulfill all that we hope of you. So I greet you today on this 1st of May in our new great Germany: for you are our spring. In you will and shall be completed that for which generations and centuries have striven; Germany!" .
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Extracts from speeches, on education of youth with "the spirit of this community," the instruction of Hitler Youth members in navy, air, and rifle training, and systematic education as the basis of German unity
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Date: 02 May 1937
Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter. (People's Observer) . . . Quotation from Speech of Hitler.
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-2454
Citations: IMT (page 255), IMT (page 257)
HLSL Item No.: 450308
Trial Issues
Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-2454: Observations by Hitler concerning and addressed to the Hitler youth, from his speeches of 1 May 1937, 20 february 1938, and 1 May 1938