Youth Film Lessons

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The youth film hours or youth film hours of the German Reich (so the full name), organized by the Hitler Youth from 1934 , were film events that were usually held on Sunday mornings - prone to conflict - when going to church.

Because of the propaganda effect, flags and pennants and fanfare blasts and the boom of mercenary drums marched concentrically to the relevant venue from the assembly points of the various units of the young people such as the Hitler Youth . These were mostly the largest cinemas in the area with more than a thousand seats if possible.

The youth film hours, which because of their solemn nature were also known as "film celebration hours", were elaborate propaganda events for which the local cinema operators had to make their screening rooms available once or twice a month. In the countryside where there were no cinemas, youth film lessons were held in school buildings, taverns, and community halls. The program of the events included a closed march of the audience, singing and finally the showing of mostly propaganda documentaries and feature films , which had a much stronger emotional effect on the young people in the communal experience than if they had visited the cinema together with family members. The presentation of the current newsreel was an integral part of the event . Participation in the youth film lessons took place officially outside of the actual HJ service. The events were also not financed through government grants, but had to be self-supporting.

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literature

  • Alois Funk, Film and Youth. An investigation into the psychological effects of film in the life of young people, Munich (Verlag Ernst Reinhardt) 1933
  • Curt Belling, Alfred Schütze, The Film in the Hitler Youth, Berlin 1937
  • Joseph Goebbels, The film as an educator. Speech at the opening of the film work of the HJ, Berlin, October 12, 1941: in: Gerd Albrecht, The film in the Third Reich. A documentation, Karlsruhe (documentary), 1979, pp. 65-69
  • John Altmann, Movie's Role in Hitler's Conquest of the German Youth; in: Hollywood Quarterly 111 (engl.)
  • Federal Archives / Cultural Office of the City of Koblenz (ed.), Exhibition on the film series "Youth in the Nazi State", Koblenz 1978
  • Youth film under National Socialism. Documentation and commentary, Münster 1984
  • Barbara Stelzner-Large, "The joy of youth"? Investigations into the propaganda youth film in the Third Reich, Weimar (VDG, publishing house and database for the humanities) 1994