Hitlers Kinder

The documentary 'Hitler's Children' describes the paths of young people, how many experienced them at that time. Partly previously unpublished film material documents the upbringing in the sense of National Socialist ideology as well as the preparation for deployment at the front and in the armaments industry. With the most diverse methods, the regime of the Third Reich succeeded in captivating an entire generation. The Hitler Youth was supposed to prepare the young people at an early stage for versatile deployment in the war. The up to 8.7 million members of the Hitler Youth were therefore primarily taught virtues such as comradeship, discipline and obedience. Young women and girls were first inculcated with the role model of Nazi ideology in the 'Bund deutscher Mädel', until they were then driven to combat themselves at the end of the war. Overall, more than a third of the male birth cohorts in Germany died in the Second World War between 1921 and 1925. In the last weeks of the war, even twelve-year-old children were called up to serve at the front.

The five-part series 'Hitler's Children' comprises the titles:

01. Seduction
02. Devotion
03. Breeding
04. War
05. Sacrifice