- Adolf Hitler wanted to create a 1,000 year Reich and planned to use his specially-reared Master Race
- After coming to power in 1933, Hitler began his attempt of seizing control of every aspect of German life
- Within a few years, every German child was expected to join the Hitler Youth or the League of German Girls
- Children were routinely drilled and taught military skills while girls were told to focus on becoming mothers
Skipping, waving flags and playing games. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking these smiling children were engaging in some of the most wholesome activities of childhood.
But a closer inspection of the photographs reveals that they were actually being indoctrinated as Nazis.
From 1935, all young men, aged between 18 and 25 had to complete six months training with the Reich's Labour Service - which was essentially a form of military training. Those involved were employed on major public infrastructure projects where they received pocket money - but no pay. Works completed by the labour service included the new autobahn
The Hitler Youth was established in 1925 and its membership was 108,000 by the end of 1932. However, the passing of the Hitler Youth Act in 1936 made it incredibly difficult for children to avoid joining the organisation, with parents suffering at work. Unsurprisingly, by 1939, membership was 8 million where the children were indoctrinated into Nazi party
German children were indoctrinated on a daily basis and forced to raise their arms and chant 'Heil Hitler'. Teachers were forced to join the Nazi Party or face suspicion that they were opposed to the regime
These children are being evacuated from Berlin in 1940 over fears they would be killed in bombing raids by the RAF. The Nazis initially evacuated children from Berlin and Hamburg, but as the war continued, other areas were also evacuated. In some cases mothers with young children were also evacuated so they would remain safe from the intensive bombing
Members of the League of German Girls, pictured, received political indoctrination but did not receive any academic training as the regime saw their primary purpose as becoming mothers to create Hitler's idea of a 'master race'
These young children are buying a frozen ice cream from a street vendor in Berlin in 1934
These members of the SA - the original internal police force of the Nazi Party - until they were brutally replaced by Heinrich Himmler's SS - along with a boy in the Hitler Youth are holding a demonstration outside a church in Berlin on July 23, 1933, a week after he abolished all opposition political parties having earlier scrapped Trades Unions
These Hitler Youth boys wearing gas masks in 1933 are being indoctrinated into the Nazi Party. The Hitler Youth's main focus was dramatically expanding the size of the army, teaching youngsters how to shoot, march, and read a map - all skills which are needed by soldiers - however, by late 1944 and early 1945 Hitler Youth was involved in the defence of Berlin
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These Hitler Youth boys wearing gas masks in 1933 are being indoctrinated into the Nazi Party. The Hitler Youth's main focus was dramatically expanding the size of the army, teaching youngsters how to shoot, march, and read a map - all skills which are needed by soldiers - however, by late 1944 and early 1945 Hitler Youth was involved in the defence of Berlin
These children are part of the Lebensborn Program - where parents deemed to be racially pure - were selected to create the 'master race' of blond hair, blue eyed children to form the backbone of the thousand year Reich. The scheme was developed by Heinrich Himmler and saw 8,000 children born in Germany and a further 12,000 in Norway in special maternity units
Members of the Hitler Youth wore military-style uniforms. Hitler told the Nuremberg Rally in 1935: 'In our eyes the German boy of the future must be slender and supple, swift as greyhounds, tough as leather and hard as Krupp steel. We must bring up a new type of human being, men and girls who are disciplined and healthy to the core. We have undertaken to give the German people an education that begins already in youth and will never come to an end... Nobody will be able to say that he has a time in which he is left entirely alone to himself'
In October 1940, this photograph of a school in the Silesia region of Poland, shows a teacher wearing a Nazi uniform. The school curriculum changed dramatically after Hitler came to power, focusing on racial biology and population polic
These two SS men are at the christening of a baby in 1936, three years before the start of the Second World War. The SS were Hitler's personal bodyguard and were under the command of Heinrich Himmler. The SS replaced the SA as the party's police
Reich Bishop Ludwig Muller, pictured in Berlin Cathedral in September 1934, was an early supporter of the Nazi Party. He attempted to combine elements of Christianity with Nazi philosophy, including the claim that Jesus was an Aryan
The Hitler Youth spent a great deal of time camping as it was seen as a great preparation for military life, as well as giving the boys many of the skills required for soldiering and developing a fanatical loyalty to the regime and Adolf Hitler
This newly married couple are inspecting their rings at an unspecified location in 1944. Eventually, all newlyweds received a copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf as well as all soldiers heading to the front - which made the Fuhrer incredibly wealthy
Children with mental handicaps such as Down's Syndrome were forcibly sterilised by the Nazis to prevent them from having children of their own such was the leadership's obsession with racial and physical purity
Pieter Schelte Heerema, pictured on his wedding day in December 1942, was a senior officer in the SS and was involved in sending unemployed Dutch men to Nazi occupied areas in Eastern Europe. He became a member of the Dutch resistance after 1943 but was jailed briefly at the end of the war for his role
These two SA men are attaching a sign to the front of this Jewish-owned store in Berlin on April 1, 1933 - less than three months after Hitler came to power - urging people to boycott the shop because of the religion of its owners
This is some early anti-Semitic propaganda with a sign titled 'The Jews are our Misfortune'. The purpose of the propaganda was to degrade and dehumanise Jewish people to allow them to be scapegoated and blamed for all of German's problems
This Jewish shop was vandalised in Berlin in the aftermath of Kristallnacht - the night of the broken glass - in November 1938. The Nazi party's own police force, the SA was responsible for the outbreak of violence on November 9 and 10. As well as targeting Jewish stores and offices, the SA burned more than 260 synagogues across Germany and Austria
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, many Jewish people tried to leave Germany as the brutal repression they faced increased dramatically since the Nazis came to power in 1933. The Nazi party used propaganda to dehumanise Jewish people. This group of Jewish people are queuing up outside a travel agent in January 1939 in the hope of moving to Palestine
German Jewa Witing Transport
Sorry, Adolf, but you left nothing but ruins behind
The Reichsadler in Berchtesgaden still looks in the direction of the Berghof
Adolf, your pride, and joy!
Now, Uncle Adolf 0 this is what you promised for the German worker:
New pictures show the transformation of a massive Nazi holiday camp built by Adolf Hitler into a luxury resort on one of Germany's finest beaches.
Flats at the Prora resort now sell for just over £500,000 in what was once a dull and grey concrete shell that was abandoned at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
The resort, on Rügen island lay virtually untouched for decades after it was abandoned by Hitler in 1939 on the outbreak of World War II until it was taken over by developers Prora Solitaire.
But the site is now unrecognizable from the concrete sprawl that lay empty for decades, with the drab buildings now look transformed into desirable seaside holiday homes, complete with luxury interiors and swimming pools.
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The apartments sell at up to £500,000 each and have now been snapped up by buyers, though there are still a handful on the market
Where there were once empty concrete shells, the flats now have bright and attractive interiors with plants and chandeliers
The building work is being finished off at the site. Originally, each flat was meant to house eight people crammed into them but they now boast balconies.
The near the beach at the Prora building complex on Ruegen Island Prora was originally commissioned by Adolf Hitler as a massive, thre mile long beach holiday resort complex for German workers under a program called Strength through Joy
The site was abandoned at the start of the Second World War in 1939 and housed East German soldiers during the Cold War before being bought by developers and transformed
Senior Nazi Robert Ley laying the foundation stone at Hitler's 'dream resort'. The original plans has a festival hall that could accommodate 20,000 people
Historian Katja Lucke, who runs a museum on the island, believes the site may never live down its Nazi past. She said: 'This is a place where 20,000 people were to be groomed to work and wage war.'
95 per cent flats at the former Nazi camp, now transformed into apartments, have already been snapped up by buyers
Now developers Prora Solitaire has opened one of the complex's eight blocks at a sprawling luxury apartment block, with three more to follow
New images released by the developers after the first block opened have revealed what the apartments look like inside
The kitchens - now ready for the buyers to use - feature granite-style worktops, clean angles and modern appliances
The glamorous rooms (pictured) in the luxurious resort have opened and could be a fresh chapter in the story of an idea that was all but abandoned more than 60 years ago
Pictures released before it was built gave an impression of what the exclusive resort might look like when it was finished
The haunting holiday camp that was built as a relaxing, seaside retreat for hardworking Nazis has now opened for guests
Prora was built by Adolf Hitler between 1936 and 1939, on Rügen, Germany's largest island, but never saw a guest through its doors, until recent real estate developments
Boasting over 10,000 rooms, it was intended as the Third Reich's equivalent of Butlin's, but construction ceased when the Nazi leader chose to focus on the looming World War 2
Glossy interiors (pictured, artists' impressions) await the owner of the luxury apartments, most of which have now been sold
Condos can be bought for between £125,000 and £900,000, for those who want a permanent plot of Prora (pictured, artists' impressions)
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SHAME ON YOU UNCLE ADOILF, WHEREVER YOUR ASHES MAY HAVE FINISHED UP
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