The Hitler Youth, which was seen as important as school, became compulsory to join in 1939, it prepared boys for military service, and included, marching, trench digging, use of dugouts, and how to overcome barbed wire. The League of German Girls enforced girls to be able to run sixty metres, swim 100 meters, taught them how to make a bed, and how to sew. All of which was in preparation for motherhood. ‘The mass organisations were designed to achieve three aims…inculcate…basic myths of the regime,…to counteract powerful traditions…family and churches…and to provide military training, sometimes disguised as sport.’ (De Grand, 2004, p.82) This emphasises that youth organisations were powerful methods of indoctrination, as they were able to pull children away from their families and