NSFK (NS-Fliegerkorps)

• Former aviation clubs.

• Train pilots.

Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF)[German Labor Front]

• Trade unions had been abolished, replaced by “Nazi unions” (DAF).

• 20 million strong.• Create conditions where strikes and discord

would disappear.• Gave paid holidays, clean working

conditions, arbitration, etc.• Kraft durch Freude (KdF)-Strength through

Joy program.

THE VOLKSWAGON

A car all could afford, production did not take off however because of

the war.

Deutsche Jägerschaft (German Hunting Association)

Hobby and sporting organizations incorporated into party.

Even the Red Cross was “Nazified”

Hitler Youth

• Racial organization to take all youth out of social backgrounds and mix them together.

• The Weimer Republic had a large number of youth groups as did the NSDAP.

• July 4, 1926-the “Greater German Youth Movement” under control of Kurt Gruber was officially made part of NSDAP.

• 21 year old Gruber named the 1st Reichsführer of the Hitler Youth.

• Gruber had run-ins with Röhm of the SA, of which the Hitler Youth was subordinate.

• October 30, 1931 Hitler appointed Balder von Schirach Reichsjugendführer.

1938

• December 1936-Hitler Youth Law made membership compulsory and banned other youth organizations.

• August 1940 Schirach replaced by Arthur Axmann.

1943-Valor awards ceremony for actions during air raids

Hitler Youth Hostel in Austria

Organization

• At the age of 6 children would enter the Volksschule.

• At 10 males moved to the Deutsches Jungvolk (DJV) [German Young Folk] and females to the Deutsches Jungmädel (DJM) [German Young Maidens]-this marked the beginning of their political education.

Deutsches Jungmädel (DJM)

All Girls Are One

Deutsches Jungvolk (DJV)

Camp 1934 Berlin 1933

1939

• At age 14 until 18 or 19, males joined the Hitler-Jugend (HJ) [Hitler Youth].

• Females joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel (DBM) [League of German Maidens].

• Males given their bayonet style sheath knives engraved with the slogan “Blut und Ehre” (Blood and Honor).