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The Role of the Hitler-Youth in Organizing the Eastern ‘Lebensraum’

Summary/Abstract: Annexation of the eastern German ‘Lebensraum’ was not the only challenge the National Socialist ideology had to face with. As the degree of population increase did not meet Hitler’s expectations, peopling of the occupied living space run into considerable difficulties. However, according to the Generalplan Ost (Master Plan East), Germans intended to ‘repopulate’ every territory expanding to the Ural Mountains between 1940 and 1942. Due to this fact, the re-Germanization of former Polish regions was planned with those ethnic groups who had been living in the eastern countries of Europe. In the course of the Second World War, the supply and the integration of people who had been settled to the “motherland in the Reich” (“Heim ins Reich”) could have been unimaginable without the assistance of the Hitler-Youth. During the “Eastern Mission” (Osteinsatz), this paramilitary organization supplied German adolescents, who had been waiting to be settled. Young Germans received not only ideological and school education but also language instruction. Furthermore, the Hitler-Youth began establishing its own organization, which turned out to be an essential condition for the integration and National Socialist indoctrination of those adolescents who had left the camps.

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