Hitler Youth

And the state has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this.

Mao's Red Guards did this.

The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

I think that he's recruiting the

Hitler youth around the country and he's trying to kill our children.

My grandpa had to fight Nazis.

Had to burn them out whole.

I spent 25 years working with kids and people to teach them agriculture, trying really hard to bridge gaps.

But we cannot allow Nazis to blow up the up.

This guy is a representative trying to get Nazi Hitler youth on board.

What do you think is the solution? The solution to hit the fascism.

There are Israeli youth now.

who think the hitler youth are not radical enough they are ultra hitler

youth

by the way you want to know something crazy like people will be like how dare you hassan people will be like don't you feel like that's a little bit dishonest or don't you feel like that's a little bit too crazy to say i mean this is the jewish nation after all

A typical base officer who liked his white collar and gloves wore his SS insignia on his uniform and demanded considerable deference.

His apparent timidity in the face of action now seemed the height of hypocrisy, and they derided him as a pimp, the term for a member of the 10- to 14-year-old age group of the Hitler Youth, in effect a Hitler Cub Scout.

Second, Hoffman tried to compensate for his immobility by intensified supervision of his subordinates.

He insisted on giving orders for everything from his bed to all intents functioning not only as company commander, but as platoon commander as well.

And what that meant is that every institution had to sort of swear loyalty and people had to enroll other people.

So they had like the teachers, and the teachers were supposed to teach Nazi values, enroll the kids in the equivalent of the Hitler Youth, because they were also fellow Aryans.

And so the teachers flat out refused.

which really threw the Nazis for a loop.

And they just, they essentially organized clandestinely, literally the kind of spy stuff of like, here are the instructions inside a matchbook that somebody passes to somebody else at a train station, that kind of thing.

And there was on a given day, Every teacher in Norway was asked to sign a letter with their real names saying, I will not teach these new values, I will not roll students in the equivalent of the Hitler Youth, I am a Norwegian, I will stand up for Norwegian values.

And there were roughly 14,000 teachers in Norway, 10,000 of them signed that they then the nazis tried firing them that didn't work because then the kids were running wild in the streets and there's nobody to look after them so the parents couldn't work so they backed down on that they sent 1100 of them to forced labor and concentration camps they still refused to cave and finally the Nazis cave, and Quisling gave this talk at a high school in the suburbs of Oslo that had been a center of resistance, and he essentially said, you teachers have ruined everything for me.

We could have had our own semi-independent country, and now we can't, and he jailed everybody who was there, and then the other teachers who weren't there demanded to be jailed, and they ended up getting freed, and the Nazis never did instruct successfully install their system in Norway.

Now, of course, another theme running through the novel is the war.

Can't quite escape it, being that we're in Germany and Steinman was in the Hitler Youth.

So talk a little bit about that tension that Sarah feels knowing his background.

Well, I didn't want to write a historical novel, historical fiction.

A typical base officer who liked his white collar and gloves wore his SS insignia on his uniform and demanded considerable deference.

His apparent timidity in the face of action now seemed the height of hypocrisy, and they derided him as a pimp, the term for a member of the 10- to 14-year-old age group of the Hitler Youth, in effect a Hitler Cub Scout.

Second, Hoffman tried to compensate for his immobility by intensified supervision of his subordinates.

He insisted on giving orders for everything from his bed to all intents functioning not only as company commander, but as platoon commander as well.