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Youth in the Dictatorships1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

James W. Miller
James W. Miller
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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The years between ten and eighteen constitute a formative period in the lives of all. The mind is then plastic, and it is important to see that the wax gets the right impression. There have been, in the past, numerous youth movements which in some degree have attempted to pour youth into a national mould, but never before have there been official movements embracing the whole youth of a nation as now exist in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union.

The Hitler-Jugend was founded in 1926, when Hitler assigned Kurt Gruber the task of organizing a party youth movement. The first five years of spade work exceeded in results even the expectations of the most optimistic.

Type
Foreign Government and Politics
Information
American Political Science Review , Volume 32 , Issue 5 , October 1938 , pp. 965 - 970
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1938

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References

2 The Times (London), Feb. 20, 1937Google Scholar.

3 The name Opera Nazionale Balilla is derived from the name of a small boy who, in 1915, after a whole village had fled, threw a stone at the invading Austrians.

4 Daily Herald (London), April 14, 1936Google Scholar.