Nazis tried to control and win over youth through organizations⇒ Hitler Youth → provided social clubs, holidays and sports clubs for young people → in many ways it was very successful.
there was opposition groups also who rejected Nazis:
| White Rose | Edelweiss Pirates |
|---|---|
| ⇒ Organized a youth group ⇒ consisted of students who attended University of Munich - Objective was to encourage others to resist and reject Nazi rule. secretly distributed leaflets ⇒ that revealed atrocities of Nazi regime ⇒ including extermination of Jews on Eastern front. → eventually arrested in 1943 ⇒ Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed | working class teenagers. → mocked Nazis ⇒ regularly getting into fights with the Hitler Youth. Some actively opposed Nazi regime ⇒ especially in the later stages of WW1. regime responded brutally ⇒ including execution of 13 Edelweiss pirate leaders in cologne in 1944. |