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As leader of the Hitler Youth, Schirach helped to build the "Führer myth", [1]: Ch 1, 5 using his speeches to communicate an emotional connection to Hitler, with themes of laying down one's life for Hitler. He wrote the lyrics to many songs, including the "song of the Hitler Youth flag", which was used in the film Der Hitlerjunge Quex. [1]:
Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsleiter .
Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader) was the highest rank of the Hitler Youth and was held by the Nazi Party official in command of the entire organization. [75] The rank of Reichsjugendführer was only held by two people during its existence, first by Baldur von Schirach and later by Artur Axmann.
Reichsjugendführer ("National Youth Leader") was the highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth. [1] On 30 October 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party. [2] In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of state power, all youth organizations in Germany were brought under Schirach's control [3] [4] and he ...
Alfons Heck (3 November 1928 – 11 April 2005) was a Hitler Youth member who eventually became a Hitler Youth Officer and a fanatical adherent of Nazism during the Third Reich. In the 1970s, decades after he immigrated to the United States via Canada, Heck began to write candidly of his youthful military experiences in news articles and two books.
Adrian von Renteln – An early leader of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League, he became Generalkommissar of occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944 and was hanged by the Soviets for war crimes. Joachim von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany from 1938 until 1945 and an SS-Obergruppenführer. Convicted ...
The idea for the Waffen-SS division was first proposed by Artur Axmann, the leader of the Hitler Youth, to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in early 1943. [10] The plan for a division made up of Hitler Youth members born in 1926 was passed on to Adolf Hitler for his approval.
After a short power struggle with the "Schilljugend", founded by Gerhard Roßbach, Gruber in the end prevailed and his Greater German Youth Movement became the Nazi Party's official youth organization. In July 1926, it was given the new name "Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth" ("Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend").