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Show Youth Cornerstone of; Germans' War Machine Taken in Tow at Six, Children Schooled in Nazi Ideology; Grooved Into Places In Totalitarian Society. v- . if Hy ivu:kii.$7: Nru Anoint and Commentator j WN U Sen Ire, I'nli.n Trust Building, Washington, l, C. (Tills Is the second o two articles by Mr. HauMiage on whrre Germany Ger-many continues ta get its fighting manpower.) J The husky ana determined young Germans plctureJjjn this page are a symbol 'of theJwce that made i . Von Ruridtjlt'e iounteroffenslve on tJi&f thswprtfern YJTliossible made It L'(tiTXrw' fctV German armies, jrJis&niAflli slashed to pieces. In Fice,tp "come back" from their smJk at Arnhem and on the Cologne Jdirse boys represent two things:, first, preliminary military training, and second, the control of the Nazi party over the German people. "As ' . the twig is bent the tree's Inclined." There are probably seven rnilllon "twigs" in Germany today. . In a previous column I discussed the various Nazi semi-military and military organizations outside the German army Itself. Particularly, the great "SA" or brown shirt organization or-ganization which, after Its purge, became be-came the Implement for Indoctrination Indoctrina-tion and preparation for military training of the German people. I also discussed in some detail the "SS" or Elite Guard, now the most common. Her whole time Is given to the Nazi activities. But I have my boy again. They worked him so hard In the youth 'camp that he came down with iluyjulosis and Hitler doesn't wTit hiTu. I shall have him to niyrse at hJine." Poor woman, I v( afraid that by this time.-ljf he lan walk and carry a gun, hes nt least a member mem-ber of the Volksturiil the "home army." , Military Trainiftg Begins at 14 The tiny tots Join the youth organization or-ganization at six. But not until they are 13 or 14 does the real "prep" military training beKln for the boys and the serious work for the girls in their separate camps. By this time they have already been indoctrinated indoc-trinated with blind devotion for the "fuehrer," the belief ItiCerman superiority su-periority and abjact . yalty to the Nazi state. ( , Aside from Ua&jf' ln Ports which are bCmwf.l condition a boy for milltaryTniViips and actual actu-al drill withuJ'eaponsMhe "leader-ship "leader-ship principle" is. stressed and promising youths ar? Sent to special i schools (OVdensburgY. When the Hitlef youth completes his training he is fully prepared for whatever Nazi group into whicfi he fits best. He may, in due course, become a member of the esoteric SS ihr force which under Himmler sywaj wm &$mrv i- :",';yws"yewawaj rules every phase of life th the Reich today. He will probably find some role in the great SA organization. In arvy case, he Will become a member mem-ber of. same special group, perhaps more than one, wruch will prepare him to serve or provide a place 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 un-less the boy is physically disqualified, disquali-fied, -or ls.xhosen for special duties, is theJLabor Service, which is like the American CCC- insofar as it is concerifed primarily with such work as construction anJ forestry.' But the mjlitary training' continues. As In the Hitler youth organization, the young Nazi is drilled, disciplined, housed, fed and clothed like a soldier. sol-dier. . When this duty is completed, he probably finds himself immediately in -the army. BuHin peacetime, or If he is specially qualified, there are a score or more organizations which will take care of him right up to old age, such for. instance as the Vet-erans'brB'anization Vet-erans'brB'anization in which military ideas are kept alive. , One important group Is the Labor Front which was created as a check on unionism There is the huj:aj Todt organization, a kind of land Seabee outfit which was created frorngrouDs" of highway builders in orrC$Cromp'et e WestwaU-Now WestwaU-Now RlSc jyJtal part of the army. Theri"is)the huce PeoDle's Wel- The German counteroffenslve on the western front has made it possible pos-sible for another crop of six hundred hun-dred thousand tough Nazi-Indoctrinated girls and boys to bolster the army and the home-front in 1945. (Courtesy Infantry Journal.) powerful factor in the Reich, whose function was first to "overcome the enemies of the Nazi party from within" with-in" and which now has taken over the control of the German armies , and the protection of the Nazi state from without. Through SA representatives Brtt I downto the "ward"f Jtarruftrie powerful Gestapo (seeretyib t the SS) which gradually styjrf all police force, thexrfiuK ftWj'rlsais X are controlled by iorce arid threat --S of force. i , . . Take Over iys Adultt' Dutieu I " But perhagjia&jfirrtportant as any Wnzi weaporrToday is the .Hitler yduth ,. organization which Is. the ' Nazis' grip on the future Today, thousands of Hitler youth are guard-ing guard-ing ' installations, watching foreign workers, performing work which relieves re-lieves men for the front. Already, many have shot to kill. All can. Tomorrow the Will be in the fare agency which collects charities; three large, civilian auxiliary air groups; the Nazi Transportation Corps, and many more, not to mention men-tion the hostXJf services under National Na-tional Socialist Womanhood. " v it ( ' " It must beemembered that all of these organizations stoutly maintain two functions: first, indoctrination in the Nazr philosiphy, or if the per- . son ia too ofd or Wo stubborn to bow to these pervenfed ideas, q to en- , chair hirrjlndijcipllne as to achieve 1 the saffer?sult. J!Thesecond function func-tion of the Nazi organizations is to prepifre German 'man and wornai power for the nearest thing to a total to-tal war effort achieved In history. i, ? ' T iThe effectiveness of this system of militarizing a nation undoubtedly was underestimated by the Allies. The factsancerning It were available., avail-able., F6rjjeimple, an excellent compendljim.of the Nazi groups was ' published by the IttlnixyJournal In Washirrgttjdpaljed "Hitler's Second Sec-ond Army-fo'rTdotribution to and study by the 'American armed forces. But it was simply impos- . sible" 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', father of lies, was 'jnot lying whence. said recently that Germany had Wtpeome "a warrior 'najios in'tihe ful ae(nse of the word." army. The pre-Hitler, youth ; groups In Germany had flourished for a long time. They embraced everything from the strongly rightist, Prussianized Prussian-ized version of the Boy Scouts whose weekly excursions .were given over to military games and maneuvers, o the religious groups. In the mid-" die were the "Wandervogel" (Wan-derbirds) (Wan-derbirds) who' despised, regimentation, regimenta-tion, strolled about the countryside on holidays with their guitars on their backs, sleeping ln barns or in the open, hobnobbing with the peasants, peas-ants, singing and also collecting the Old Volk-songs and just having a plain good time. The writer himself him-self spent many happy-odih' with the carefreeWandefyflael, some of them in the ifel,Tne very territory terri-tory through which Von Rundstedt led his charge. We talked of poetry, lqye and philosophy never about war. . . ' '' Suffice it to say, the Nazis method-. , Ically absolved all of these croups, the religious movements whicTfAvere well organized, resisting as long as they could. Today, under Nazi law, tbe Hitler youth (male and female), i controls "all German youth wfithln Attie Reich." l can give you the. testimony of. tie German mother which fas . . ' Weispered into my ear In 1939,. just bofore the war broke out. , , ."My daughter has gone." she ' said to. me. "We have-nothing Sin |