Show youth cornerstone of P germans war machine faken in tow at six children schooled in nazi ideology grooved into places in totalitarian society by news analyst and corp men service union trust building washington D 0 tills this Is the second of two articles article by y mr baukhage on where germany continues to get its fighting manpower th the e husky and determined young er mans pictured on ibis his page are a symbol of the force that made von von counter counteroffensive I 1 ve on he western front possible made it possible for the german armies supposedly smashed to pieces in france to come back from their stand at arnhem achem and on the cologne plain these boys represent two things arst preliminary military training and nd second the control of the nazi party over the german people As the twig Is bent the trees inclined there are probably seven million twigs in germany today in a previous column I 1 discussed the various nazi semi military and military organizations outside the german derm an army itself particularly the great SA or brown shirt organization which after its purge became the implement for indoctrination and preparation for military training of the german people I 1 also discussed in some detail the ITS sa or elite guard now the most the german counteroffensive on the w western e stern front has made it possible ble f tor or another crop of six hundred d t thousand h tough nazi nail 12 abed girls and boys to bolster the army and the home front in 1915 1945 courtesy infantry journal powerful factor in the reich whose function was first to overcome the enemies of the nazi party from with lol aarl which now has taken over the control of the german a armies raf es and the protection of the nazi na z state from without through SA representatives right down to the ward through the powerful gestapo secret police of the SS which gradually superseded all police force the adult non nazis are controlled by force and rid threat of force take over adults duties but perhaps as important as any nazi hail weapon today is the hitler youth organization which is the nazis grip on the future today thousands of hitler youth are guarding installations watching foreign workers performing work which relieves men for the front already abany have shot to kill all ali can tomorrow they will be in the army the pre hitler youth groups in germany had flourished for a long firne they embraced ev everything ery thing from the strongly rightist prussian eced version of the boy scouts whose weekly excursions were given over to military games and maneuvers to the religious reli elout groups in the middle were the th Wander vogel wan der birds who despised regiments regimentation ft rolled about the countryside on en holidays holiday with their guitars on backs backi sleeping to in barns or in the file open hobnobbing hobnob bing with the peasants singing and also collecting the old id volk tone songs and just having a plain iaan good time the writer himself spent spat many happy hours with the carefree Wander vogel some of 0 them in the delfel the very territory through which von led his hie charge chare we talked of poetry love and philosophy never about war suffice it to say the nazis method rally kally absolved all of these groups the religious movements which were well organized resisting as long as they could today under nazi low law the hitler youth male and female femal controls all german youth within the bie reich I 1 can give you the testimony of wie one german mother which was whispered into my ear in just before the war broke out my daughter has gone she said aid to me we have nothing in how ya coln to keep em cm down on me aa farm arm after cancellation of ag rf ri cultural deferments deter ments 4 even a drunkard cant weep in ila bier you dont have to be a carpenter jo 10 make a venetian blind just stick your fingers in 1 his hie eyes but can rau you make a birch bark common her whole time Is given to the nazi activities but I 1 have my boy again they worked him so hard in the youth camp that th athe he came down with tuberculosis and hitler doean doesn t want him I 1 shall have him to nurse at home poor woman I 1 am afraid th that at by this time it if he can walk and carry a gun he Is at least a member of the sturm the home army military training Begin sat 14 the tiny tots join the youth organization at six but not until they are 13 or 14 does the real prep military training begin tor for the boys boy and the serious work for or the girls in their separate i camps by this time they have already been indoctrinated trina ted with blind devotion tor for the fuehrer the belief in german superiority perio rity and abject loyalty to the Nazi state aside from training in sports which are believed to condition a boy for military hardships and actual drill with weapons the leader 1 ship principle Is stressed and promising youths are sent to special schools burg when the hitler youth completes his training he is fully prepared tor for whatever nazi group into which he fits best he may in hi due course become a member of the esoteric SS the force which under himmler rules every phase of life in the reich today ile he will probably find some role in the great SA organization in any case he will become a member of some special group perhaps more than one which will prepare him to serve or provide a place tor for his service in his destined role as a cog in the machinery of total war normally when his hitler youth period Is ended the next step unless the boy is physically di disqualified or is chosen tor for special duties the the american insofar as it is concerned primarily with such work as construction and forestry but the military training continues As in the hitler youth organization the young nazi is drilled disciplined housed fed and clothed like a soldier when this duty is completed he probably finds himself immediately in the army but in peacetime or it if he is specially qualified there are a score or more organizations which will take care of him right up to old age such tor for instance as the veterans organization in which military ideas are kept alive one important group is the labor front fron t which was created as a check on u unionism nion ism there is the huge organization a kind of land seabee outfit which was wa created from groups of highway builders in order to complete the now it is a vital part of the th e army there is the huge peoples welfare agency which collects charities three large civilian auxiliary ai air r groups the nazi transportation corps and many more not to mention the host of services under national socialist womanhood these organizations stoutly maintain two functions first indoctrination in the nazi philosophy or if the person is too old or too stubborn ta t a bow to these perverted ideas ideal so tu to enchain him in discipline as to achieve the some same result the second function of the nazi organizations Is to prepare german man and woman power tor for the nearest thing ts to a total war effort achieved in history the effectiveness of this system of militarizing militar izing a nation undoubtedly was underestimated by the allies the facts acts concerning it were available for example an excellent compendium of 0 the nazi groups was published by the infantry journal in washington called hitler hillers Hit lers a see sec ond army for or distribution to and study by the american Amerl cn armed forces but it was aim imply ply impossible for the normal individual to grasp the degree to which the nazis had perfected their plans and had by indoctrination from childhood actually turned human beings into efficient machines herr goebbels Goeb belt father of ties lie was wag not lying when he sold laid recently that germany had become a cardor nation in the lull sense ense of the word BARBS by baukhage Bauk hase liage A chicken unlike a rabbit has to dye it if it wants to lay an easter easier egg As between the hare and the tortoise ill take lake the turtle in my soup I 1 I 1 you may ae b e a war profiteer and own your roll but you cant smoke a many cigarettes these days 0 you can roll your own |