Was Nazi Youth Policy Successful

1. Responses to Nazi Youth Policies
-Enthusiasm: This source says that the youthes were very enthusiastic about the Nazis. They liked uniforms and the regimentation the Nazis offered. They are fanatical about Hitler.

-Conformity for career reasons: In source 14.35 it says that many young people think the will get jobs from the persecution of jews and Marxists. SOurce 14.37 is saying that young people are upset because they can't have the jobs they want. They were promised good jobs, and they believed they would get them, but they were let down.

-Conformity through fear: Source 14.36 says that some students lie about what newspapers their parents read at home, for fear of being persecuted. They don't their teachers to know that their parents are not Nazis. They just conform because they are afraid. Source 14.38 shows a young child being escorted by armed Nazis. This source shows that children conform to Nazis because they are afraid because they feel like they could be shot at any moment.

-conformity through apathy/natural obedience: This source shows that no one the author knows really cared about National Socialism, they only obey because it is easy to do.

-Noncomformity/disilussion: This source suggests that many young people are dissatisfied with the Nazis. They no longer go to Hitler youth meetings, and are bored with the regimented routine and the force-feeding of National Socialism.

-Criticism/opposition: Source 14.36 also shows that some young people fight back, by breaking Nazi prohibitions. Source 14.37 shows there are also other young people who are like the counter-culture. They write anti-nazi slogans on the walls of the subway.

2. Yes, the opinonian did change over time. In 1934 the Nazis still seemed new and cool. By 1935 young people were feeling pressure to conform and were getting tired of the same old ideology. By 1938 they were dissuliosend with National Socialism. By 1943 they were actually opposing the Nazis by deliberately breaking rules.

3. Neither of them are necessarily accurate. The SOPADE can't know all of the children in the country, so maybe only they people they see are disillusioned with National Socialism. But actually I think they are good sources, because the police probably were not lying, and probably not the SOPADE. They were just unbiased observers.
4. I think Nazi Youth Policy did work for a lot of kids, but not all. Some were content with the mindless-ness of the Nazis, but a lot of the smarter ones rebelled or at least questioned the Nazis. It was not completely effective, especially towards the end of the regime. There seems to be a lot of disagreement between historians. A. Wilt says that 95% of German youth supported the Nazis, while D. Peukert says during the war years there was a "massive opposition movement." K. Fischer says, "Nazi educational efforts as a whole turned out to be poorly thought out and lacking in substance."