Hitler had many ways of indoctrinating people into Nazism; they used strategic propaganda and widespread it to successfully target the German youth into numerous programs and schools. Young people are very impressionable and Hitler used this to his advantage when creating his order. Indoctrination was important in getting the German Youth to abide by the Nazi ideals and they played a critical role in helping Hitler to achieve his overall goals.
Young people are very impressionable and Hitler used this to his advantage when creating his order. Research shows that young brains have more synaptic connections than adult ones, making them highly impressionable, as they're building synapses and modifying them they learn (Forster K, 2015). Hitler
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Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race of people and were set out to weaken other races and take over the world. He believed Jews were particularly destructive to the German ‘Aryan’ race. This stems from the ‘Stab-in-the-back’ myth that Germany wasn’t defeated in the war, it was betrayed by Jews in Germany, who sabotaged Germany’s armed forces. By 1936, all ‘Aryan’ children in Germany over 6 years old were required to join a Nazi youth group. As Hitler said ‘These young people will learn nothing else but how to think German and act German. . . . And they will never be free again, not in their whole lives.’ (Max von der Grün, Howl Like the Wolves, 1980, pg 118–19.). Hitler wanted to hammer away all the weakness of the youth to create a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel beast of prey that was the new German youth. This, Adolf Hitler said, is how he would create the New Order (The History Place, 1999-2023). Although it was compulsory for the youth to join these groups, many of them actually wanted to join and were excited to. These groups created comradeship to the kids in it making it seem enticing and fun. This view of fun comradeship faded instantly when they joined and the mind control began, or rather,