th movement started accepting younger children and made the programs more physical. By 1936 for Hitlers birthday, his present would be to have every child over ten in the movement. If anyone would hold out his or her parents would be punished or even sent to jail. This birthday present made the youth organization grow to about 6 million. When 1938 came around Hitler expanded Germanys borders to include Austria and some of Czechoslovakia. Which made the youth movement grow to its highest point of 8.7 million children? At the end of the year, the children truly learned what they were in for, in one of Hitlers speeches. He said that they were to know and to think nothing other than German, and that from age ten on they will be apart of some type of Hitlers organizations, "and they will never be free again as long as they live."(The History Place,www.historyplace.com) ...
