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Hitler Youth Journal 1937 - Blind admiration of young Germans for Hitler

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"We all have only one task: Germany! Our role model is the Fuehrer" - Freudenborn 1937 Jahrbüchlein für Jungen und Mädel Bearbeitet by Ernst Gilbricht - Freudenborn 1937 Year Booklet for Boys and Girls Edited by Ernst Gilbricht, published by German Youth Hostels Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, Berlin 1937. An annual journal of Hitler Youth - with many passages and stories expressing blind admiration for the leader Adolf Hitler - the German youth blindly follows the great tyrant in human history. At the beginning of the journal is a passport photo of the girl member of the Hitler Youth who owns the journal.

Hitler Youth journal of the year 1937 in which the blind admiration of the German youth for the Führer is expressed. The journal is accompanied by illustrations and photographs of the ongoing activities of the Hitler Youth. Alongside the description of the social activities of the Hitler Youth at sea, in the forests, and in the hostel, the activities of the "Hitler Girls" club, the blind faith in Hitler "the savior of Germany" is evident. The journal opens with a heroic description of the day Hitler seized power in Germany, and the years that followed under his leadership: "On January 30, Adolf Hitler was appointed the new Chancellor!" The newspapers reported in the evening of January 30, 1933. The German people breathed a sigh of relief and enthusiastically voted for the leader Adolf Hitler. Torch parades of the SA. For the first time, they marched through the Brandenburg Gate, And the victorious banners of the National-Socialist Revolution waved confidently in front of the endless brown columns . At this wonderful moment, the long-awaited Third Reich was founded. The German people, workers, farmers and soldiers, looked at the Führer with new faith, and at the same time the most sacred oath of loyalty was heard in millions of souls: "The Führer's order! We execute. Four years of National Socialist cultivation work are behind us. Great things have been achieved and even greater things are to be created for Germany in the coming years. We are young and the world is open to us. Fate will sometimes place difficult tasks before us. We will overcome them, just as Adolf Hitler overcame a hundred years to start the new millennium. We all have only one task: Germany! Our role model is the Leader. Like him, we want to pursue our goal with perseverance. We young people in particular need to be tough, because one day we will be the bearers of the state. Sons and daughters of the Third Reich! We have a great task ahead of us... Our faith is called Germany".

Among other things, there are several passages describing Hitler as the undeniable leader that the youth of Germany long to obey and see. For example, it is told about a Hitler Youth named Hans who excitedly waited "to see the Leader" at a large Hitler Youth rally. The boy's excitement is described when Hitler passed by him in his car and looked at him, and on his way home he thought of only one thing: "The Leader looked at me", he lay awake in bed for a long time thinking to himself "The Leader looked at me".

Throughout the journal, the internal struggles of the Hitler Youth with groups that opposed the Nazi ideology are described, as well as accounts of violent street battles between Hitler's loyalists and his opponents.

Rare. Only one copy appears in the world cat global library catalog at Stanford University, United States.

48 p. 16 p. Very good condition.

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56. Hitler Youth Journal 1937 - Blind admiration of young Germans for Hitler