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Children reported the activity of neighbors, teachers, religious leaders, and even their own family. [3] Through these means, the youth of Germany were taught to respect, follow, and embrace the ideologies of the Nazi Party and those espoused by Hitler. The effect of propaganda on children would last for years after World War II ended.
Junge further asked Hitler once why he never married. Hitler replied, "...I wouldn't have been able to give enough time to my wife". [29] Hitler told her that he did not want children, as they would have had "...a very hard time, because they're expected to possess the same gifts as their famous parents and they can't be forgiven for being ...
Witness children typically expressed defiance to the Nazi regime's attempts to make them act against their beliefs. [57] They were often expelled from public schools due to their refusal to say "Heil Hitler". Some children were sent to reeducation centers, [58] while others were adopted by families in good standing with the Nazi regime. [56]
Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died in 1960 and did not have children, was the last member of the family still bearing the Hitler surname on their tombstone. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of 2023, only five members of the Hitler family bloodline, all men who bore no children, were still living.
If women did not produce desirable children, they were subject to shaven heads, pillorying, public humiliation and execution. Some women were even used a propaganda themselves, and were forced to wear signs in public that said "I have committed racial treason" or "I fornicate with Jews."
The Hitler Youth was essentially an army of fit, young Germans that Hitler had created, trained to fight for their country. They had the "choice" either to follow Nazi party orders or to face trial with the possibility of execution. [4] The boys of Hitler Youth first saw action following the British air raids in Berlin in 1940.
Jean-Marie Loret was born illegitimately in 1918 in Seboncourt as Jean-Marie Lobjoie. His mother was Charlotte Eudoxie Alida Lobjoie (15 March 1898 – 13 April 1951), daughter of Louis Joseph Alfred Lobjoie, a butcher, and his wife, Marie Flore Philomène Colpin.
In his Second Book, which was unpublished during the Nazi era, Hitler praised Sparta (using ideas perhaps borrowed from Ernst Haeckel), [25] adding that he considered Sparta to be the first "Völkisch State". He endorsed what he perceived to be an early eugenics treatment of deformed children: Sparta must be regarded as the first Völkisch State.