Jugendbund
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The Jugendbund der NSDAP was a group similar to the Hitler Youth
, and was indeed its predecessor. It was effectively the youth section of the Sturmabteilung
(SA, or Storm Troopers) and it existed between 1922 and 1923 when the NSDAP was banned following the failed Munich Putsch. It contained three sections:
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...
, and was indeed its predecessor. It was effectively the youth section of the Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
(SA, or Storm Troopers) and it existed between 1922 and 1923 when the NSDAP was banned following the failed Munich Putsch. It contained three sections:
- Jungmannschaften: boys aged 14 to 16 years
- Jungsturm "Adolf Hitler": 16 to 18 years old
- There was also a group for young German girls