Talk:Hitler Youth

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 Definition:  The male youth organisation of the German Nazi Party during the years of the Third Reich. [d] [e]
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Good start! I'd recommend making it clearer that the impact of Hitlerjugend, both within the Wehrmacht and SS, was far greater than the 12th SS Panzer Division alone. The indoctrination affected overall military behavior.

While the Werewolf threat was indeed taken seriously, especially in terms of the Alpine Redoubt, Allied occupation records show very little guerilla activity, certainly not at a unit level. I wouldn't overemphasize this aspect, and really would want solid citations that it was other than a propaganda threat. Goebbels, I'm sure, wanted it to happen, probably more than Himmler, but it's instructive to compare the postwar German resistance to the French, Russian, or Danish. Howard C. Berkowitz 02:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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