“For Nation and Race” is the October slogan adopted by the Hitler youth. The slogan appears on the organization’s letterheads, bulletin boards and is spotted in conspicuous places throughout its official newspaper.
An explanation of the slogan, offered by the Hitler Youth propaganda office, is as follows:
“We want to be aware of our responsibilities as the future bearers of the nation. Our parents can no longer make any changes in the racial structure of the nation. That task devolves entirely upon the youth. It is no false racial pride in which we are brought up, but very severe racial responsibility and discipline. Adolf Hitler has made the German nation aware of race as the basis of its existence. The German nation forgot the most elementary fundamental preservation of observation, and the alien and inferior races crept in among us and infected the body of the German nation with their poisons. The Jew demanded the land and drove the nation swiftly to destruction. Adolf Hitler arose as our saviour.”
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