How Teenage Sexuality Among the Hitler Youth Spiraled Out of Control

To increase the German population, the Nazis encouraged their teenagers to have lots of sex

Member of the League of German Girls, a female wing of Hitler Youth (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

The Nazis established two organizations to control and manipulate German teenagers. For boys, they had the Hitler Youth and for girls, they created the League of German Girls. They established both organizations in 1936.

The League of German Girls was the girl’s wing of the Hitler Youth. Because of sexual promiscuity, the organization got the nickname “The League of German Mattresses.”

All German teenagers aged between ten and eighteen years had to join the Hitler Youth. At its peak, the Nazi youth movement had 8.7 million members.

By 1945, a staggering nine out of ten German teenagers joined the Hitler Youth.

The teenagers were perfect targets for the Nazi skillful manipulation

Adolf Hitler meets with the members of the League of German Girls (Image:warfarehistorynetwork.com)

The teenagers were fascinated by camping, movies, excursion trips, and singing. In the dull life of the German…