HITLER YOUTH & FANATACISM
As the Allies approached Berlin, SS squads, including young HJ members, were rounding up every available man and boy that could fight. Anyone who failed to show up for training or report for duty was considered a traitor and was hanged or shot on the spot. Karl Damm's Hitler Youth battalion was sent to the front lines to dig trenches thirty miles east of Berlin. He stood guard duty one night and heard rifle fire. The next day he counted fifty Russian tanks drive past his unit's position. He later found his comrades dead in one of their freshly dug trenches, all shot down by the Russians. Still, the youth continued to fight.
A Hitler Youth 'man' surrenders. The defiance and urge to fight still shows on his face. Such was the fanaticism of the Hitler Youth
At the Havel River in Berlin, five thousand Hitler Youth were ordered to defend the Pichelsdorf Bridge so a relief army could arrive from the south. The relief army never came, as the Russians had destroyed it. The HJ held the bridge for two days and nights against Russian tanks until 4,500 of them lay dead or wounded. One of these wounded boys, carried into a hospital was told by a doctor, "You dummy! Look at what this has gotten you!" The boy straightened up, spit in the doctor's face, and said, "Long live the Fuhrer!" Such was their fanaticism, even at the end.
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"In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God."
"I promise to do my duty in love and loyalty to the Führer and our flag."
"Adolf Hitler, you are our great Führer. Thy name makes the enemy tremble. Thy Third Reich comes, thy will alone is law upon the earth. Let us hear daily thy voice and order us by thy leadership, for we will obey to the end and even with our lives. We praise thee! Hail Hitler!"
"Führer, my Führer, give me by God. Protect and preserve my life for long. You saved Germany in time of need. I thank you for my daily bread. Be with me for a long time, do not leave me, Führer, my Führer, my faith, my light, Hail to my Führer!"
"Live Faithfully, Fight Bravely, and Die Laughing!"
"We were born to die for Germany!"
"You are nothing–your Volk is everything!"
DEFENCE OF PICHELSDORF BRIDGE
At the Havel River in Berlin, five thousand Hitler Youth were ordered to defend the Pichelsdorf Bridge so a relief army could arrive from the south. The relief army never came, as the Russians had destroyed it. The HJ held the bridge for two days and nights against Russian tanks until 4,500 of them lay dead or wounded. One of these wounded boys, carried into a hospital was told by a doctor, "You dummy! Look at what this has gotten you!" The boy straightened up, spit in the doctor's face, and said, "Long live the Fuhrer!" Such was their fanaticism, even at the end.
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Jungvolk Oath (taken by ten-year-old boys on first entering the Hitler Youth)
"In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God."
Pledge of Allegiance
"I promise to do my duty in love and loyalty to the Führer and our flag."
Hitler Youth 'Prayers' (modeled after the Lord's Prayer)
"Adolf Hitler, you are our great Führer. Thy name makes the enemy tremble. Thy Third Reich comes, thy will alone is law upon the earth. Let us hear daily thy voice and order us by thy leadership, for we will obey to the end and even with our lives. We praise thee! Hail Hitler!"
"Führer, my Führer, give me by God. Protect and preserve my life for long. You saved Germany in time of need. I thank you for my daily bread. Be with me for a long time, do not leave me, Führer, my Führer, my faith, my light, Hail to my Führer!"
Mottos for Boys
"Live Faithfully, Fight Bravely, and Die Laughing!"
"We were born to die for Germany!"
"You are nothing–your Volk is everything!"