Hitler Youth members marching at a Reich Youth Day Rally in Potsdam
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Date
1932
Description
A parade of Hitler Youth members carrying flags march at a Reich Youth Day rally in Potsdam. This organization, founded in 1926 was a paramilitary youth group, utilized to indoctrinate children and gradually incorporate them into the Sturmabteilung (also known as SA, Brownshirts, or Storm Troopers). The group would eventually grow to include millions of members and became the only legal youth group in Nazi Germany in 1939.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Topic
Global History and Geography, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifier
8064
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William O. McWorkman
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