Hitler's Youth

The most recurrent phrase that I heard during the video was how clever the Nazis were with the propaganda within the Hitler Youth.  After the video was finished, I had to agree: the cleaver things that the Nazis made sure were either present or absent throughtout the whole thing greatly influences one's subconcious. 

Liz's comment on how the Hitler Youth did not mention that any of these activities were for Hitler (at least in the beginning) is probably the most important example.  Hitler had everyone believe that the Hitler Youth was created to make young boys into proper Germans, instead of his true purpose of trying to implant his ideals into society through the youth and later on create an army.  This initial purpose made the program seem not just harmless but beneficial to the young boys of Germany; when they started saying that their activities were for Hitler, it didn't matter then because the vast majority of boys had already joined and were blindly following the organization, and any parents that spoke out against the organization or Hitler were reported to the Gestapo by their own children if they were in the Hitler Youth. 

Also, a great portion of the still-shots were of that young, innocent-looking boy saluting Hitler which we see as the most frightening picure; however, back then, that was a picture of what was considered the "perfect German" saluting Hitler who the Germans thought of as a man who had/ was helping Germany out of the great depression that followed after WWI and was restoring Germany back to its original glory.  This image would have been seen as positive by the Germans back then.

In addition, the way the Nazis taught the boys many military-like maneuvers (such as ducking down in the grass to hide and then popping up) by hiding them as games was also very cleaver.  Hiding something that closely resembles basic training for today's army as a summer camp for the boys in the Hitler Youth is just another example of how clever the Nazis were.