Reichsjugendführer

Reichsjugendführer ("National Youth Leader") was the highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth.[1] In 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the first Reich Youth Leader.[2] In 1933, all youth organizations were brought under Schirach's control.[3][4] Artur Axmann succeeded Schirach as national leader of the Hitler Youth on 8 August 1940.[5]

National Youth Leader
Reichsjugendführer
Reichsjugendführer gorget patch
Standard for the Reichsjugendführer
Nazi Party
StatusAbolished
AbbreviationRJF
Member of Hitler Youth
AppointerFührer of the NSDAP
Formation1931
First holderBaldur von Schirach
Final holderArtur Axmann
Abolished1945
Deputy Stabsführer

List
No. ReichsjugendführerTook officeLeft officeTime in office
1
Schirach, BaldurBaldur von Schirach
(1907–1974)		30 October 19311 May 19408 years, 184 days
2
Axmann, ArturArtur Axmann
(1913–1996)		8 August 19408 May 19455 years, 7 days

Post-war

With the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth was disbanded by Allied authorities as part of the denazification process. Both Schirach and Axmann were condemned as war criminals by the leading Allies powers after the end of the Second World War in Europe, in particular for the role the two played in corrupting the minds of children.[6] Schirach was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[7] Axmann only received a 39-month prison sentence in May 1949.[8] Later, in 1958, a West Berlin court fined Axman 35,000 marks (approximately £3,000, or $8,300 USD), about half the value of his property in Berlin. The court found him guilty of indoctrinating German youth with National Socialism until the end of the war.[8]

References

Notes
  1. McNab 2009, p. 15.
  2. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, pp. 431, 835.
  3. Zentner & Bedürftig 1991, p. 431.
  4. Kater 2004, pp. 48–59.
  5. Hamilton 1984, pp. 247, 334.
  6. Hamilton 1984, pp. 247, 335.
  7. Rempel 1989, pp. 250–251.
  8. Hamilton 1984, p. 248.

Bibliography
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