Loyalty said:
ABATTBQ87 said:
93MarineHorn said:
"Biden Youth".
n January 1933, there were 50,000 members of the Hitler Youth. By the end of the year, there were more than 2 million. And as the 1930s progressed, the Nazis waged war on the groups so popular among German youth. First, they banned children's groups associated with political movements like Communism. And in 1936, they banned all youth groupsincluding the Boy Scoutsand forced members to become part of the Hitler Youth instead. Jewish children were banned from participation.
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-hitler-youth-turned-a-generation-of-kids-into-nazis
I'm curious what the German media had to say about this at the time? Did those fact finding "journalist" expose the truth?
Sound familiar?
When Adolf Hitler
took power in 1933, the Nazis controlled less than three percent of Germany's 4,700 papers.
Of the 4,700 newspapers published in Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933, no more than 1,100 remained. Approximately half were still in the hands of private or institutional owners, but these newspapers operated in strict compliance with government press laws and published material only in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of Propaganda. While the circulation of these newspapers was approximately 4.4 million, the circulation of the 325 newspapers and their multiple regional editions owned by the Nazi Party was 21 million.
During the first weeks of 1933, the Nazi regime deployed the radio, press, and newsreels to stoke fears of a pending "Communist uprising," then channeled popular anxieties into political measures that eradicated civil liberties and democracy. SA (Storm Troopers) and members of the Nazi elite paramilitary formation, the
SS, took to the streets to brutalize or arrest political opponents and incarcerate them in hastily established detention centers and
concentration camps. Nazi thugs broke into opposing political party offices, destroying printing presses and newspapers.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich
