What was the popes role in the hitler youth.?
He was a German child at a time it was mandatory for German children to be in the Hitler Youth. His “crime” was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time (1927). ——————— Mandatory Participation On December 1, 1936, Hitler decreed “The Law concerning the Hitler Youth” which mandated that all young Germans (excluding Jews) would “be educated physically, intellectually and morally in the spirit of National Socialism” though the Hitler Youth from the age of ten onward. This law also effectively ended the Catholic Youth Organization which had managed to hold for three years amid continual Nazi harrassment. Parents who prevented their children from joining the Hitler Youth were subject to heavy prison sentences. Membership thus grew to nearly six million. As a result, the organization sprouted into a giant bureaucracy in Berlin and began to acquire the dreariness of a big governmental institution in marked contrast to the dynamic organization it had been in the 1920s and
