World War Two

Season 9 · Episode 16 · 2026-05-23

World War Two Season 9 Episode 16: How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 1936 – Watch Online

How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 1936

How did Nazi Germany seize control of its youth by the end of 1936? In this Q4 1936 episode, Spartacus Olsson traces the Hitler Youth Law, the Four-Year Plan, Winterhilfswerk, the Anti-Comintern Pact, Goebbels’s attack on criticism, and the tightening exclusion of German Jews. Berlin, December 31, 1936. The Nazi regime did not need another single dramatic coup. It connected the household, the factory, the school, the street collection, the newspaper, and the foreign threat into one system of mobilization. This episode covers how the Law on the Hitler Youth declared all German youth organized within the Hitler Youth; how the Four-Year Plan redirected recovery toward rearmament and autarky; ho