Youth literature in the National Socialist German Reich

Youth education under the National Socialists

In the National Socialist German Reich , the Hitler Youth and the BDM had the task of guaranteeing the “ ideological orientation ” of the youth. Many National Socialist youth media were founded to support this and most of the youth publishers were brought into line in line with the Hitler Youth. All others quickly established connections with the party (e.g. Voggenreiter-Verlag ) or were destroyed. After 1933, only the Catholic and Protestant youth could maintain their own literature.

The Office for Press and Propaganda strictly controlled the youth press and intervened in the event of "content deviations". The most important newspaper of the Reich Youth Leadership was Die HJ - Kampfblatt der Hitler-Jugend . In 1938 , Karl Lapper defined the goal of Nazi youth propaganda in the "permanent propaganda mobilization of the HJ". In addition to newspapers, film was also placed in the service of the Hitler Youth.

National youth magazines

Youngsters' pocket book Creates decent guys (1938) by Erich Kühn

The youth literature in National Socialist youth propaganda included regional publications, at least 57 national journals such as

• Der Pimpf , magazine of the young people
• The HJ - the battle sheet of the Hitler Youth ; later renamed to
• Junge Welt - the Reich magazine of the Hitler Youth .
• The German girl - illustrated magazine of the BDM
• Will and Power , leadership magazine
• The young Germany , socio-political magazine
• Jugend und Heimat - magazine of the youth hostels
• The young village community , rural youth magazine
• Sports of youth
• Youth at the plow
• The glider pilot - magazine for young glider pilots
• The fanfare
• The wake-up call
• tomorrow
• The play community
• The source

as well as propaganda books, songs, theatrical works and films such as Quax, der Bruchpilot .

literature

• Arno Klönne : Youth in the Third Reich. The Hitler Youth and their opponents . Special edition. PapyRossa-Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89438-261-9 .
• Gudrun Wilcke : The children's and youth literature of National Socialism as an instrument of ideological influence. Song texts - short stories and novels - school books - magazines - stage works. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2005, ISBN 3-631-54163-5 , ( Child and youth culture, literature and media. Theory - Society - Didactics 40).

Web links

• Hitler's youth propaganda
• Nazi youth magazines
• Federal Archives : Holdings of the Hitler Youth 1926-1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uta Gerhardt (Ed.): Time perspectives. Studies on culture and society. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, p. 197.