Hitler Youth (Chapter 6)
By: Brooklyn
Summary
National Socialist Rally
- Many people came including much of the Hitler youth.
- Hitler spoke and the there was a parade with gymnastic and athletic performances along with the Nazi and Hitler youth marches.
- Although after this war basically corrupted so this rally was the last one of peacetime
- Used propaganda to make Germans believe Poles were mistreating other Germans that lived there
- Hitler had an ally which was the Soviet Union and they worked together using lightning war style to take Poland
- After they defeated the poles the Hitler Youth helped house Germans by putting them into the poles houses
- The poles were either executed or sent to labor camps
- This invasion was basically the start of the Holocaust
- In order to prepare for war the Hitler youth took over may jobs around town
- Boys were postmen and gave people draft notices and ration cards
- Other jobs for the Hitler youth were as follows: clerical work, and going door-to-door collecting items like brass and copper to recycle
- Germans were not allowed to listen to any foreign radio
- They would have 3 years in prison if they were caught
- Sentenced to death if they told anything to anybody
- If you made a comment bashing the rule you were arrested
- Sadly, children turned in their parents
- Germany invaded Norway, Denmark, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and France in 1940
- The bombed Britain and shockingly Britain bombed berlin back
- After a while of pointless fighting with Britain, Germany invaded its former ally (Soviet Union)
- Although they were not ready for the Russian winter and stopped attacking when winter came
- Germany's ally, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
- Made us join WWII
- As soon as we entered Britain and the U.S.A bombed German Cities ( Teamed up)
- Countries frequently air-raided Germany
- Hitler youth tended and took care a children during these times
- Also they took turns pumping fresh air into the safety bunkers
- You were told not to make a sound during the air-raids and it was also Hitler yOuth's job to make sure people obeyed that rule
- Also they would help people who lost their homes
- Put out many of the fires
- Stacked all the dead remains and bodies that were left
- Older boys had to protect from air-raid
- the were to man aircraft batteries to do so
- Young boys would work all day every day digging ditches meant to sop enemy tanks from crossing
- They took no breaks all day digging the ditches that were a few miles long each
Vocabulary
Propaganda-information of a biased and misleading nature used to promote a particular political cause or point of view
Censor-to examine officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it
Ghettos-The jewish quarter of a city
Ally-A county or state cooperating with each other for military benefit or another reason; usually by treaty