Hitler Youth

Here is a very interesting site about the exploitation of youth under Hitler's regime:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-aftermath.htm

The parallels are eerily similar. Looking back at the Family I had a hard time seeing First Generation as Hitlerian and the youth as comparable to Jews. Instead what seems to fit very very good is what happened to youth, German youth that got sent to Hitler youth camps.

Hitler's regime started with supposed good causes of rebuilding the country and then the ethnic cleansing and political cleansing started as well as the glorification of the most pure Aryan race children. Children were taken from homes to learn dedication to Hitler and homeland and the whole society either remained quiet about it or were sucked into it..largely sucked into it and participating in it.

What is interesting in this article is that children at very young ages were taken from home life, not all children, but huge numbers of them and they were trained in camps that were harsh, no room for questioning, trained to fight and die for their country and some actually fought towards the end of WW2, even as young as 8 yrs old! There was also sexual abuse and humiliations in camps.

Girls also were put into a role and trained as female role models of the country, Their roles being Church, Children (breeding pure Aryan children) and Cooking or something like that although at the end of the war girls were also employed to fight on front lines.

Another interesting thing is that after the war, there were many youth who were under educated as their programming of allegiance to and dying for their "Fatherland" was of the primary importance.

After WW2 there were trials against the Germans that ran the camps. Why this is so interesting to me is that should there ever be cases brought up against primary perpetrators, this site most closely, imo represents what Berg did to children within the Family AND how children suffered as a result as well as the info that major camp leaders were prosecuted SUCCESSFULLY.