In Nazi youth organizations, indoctrination on Raum and the East intensified. Youth organizations and schools took up trends in the cur- riculum of the First World War and war geography. Renewed were

In Nazi youth organizations, indoctrination on Raum and the East
intensified. Youth organizations and schools took up trends in the cur-
riculum of the First World War and war geography. Renewed
were of special importance for Hitler Boys ‘ЧеагпеЯ
camouflage and how to write combat messages (when, where, who, how),
use a compass, and read maps. These exercises culminated a few times a
year in the so-called grosse Geldndespiele,”’ including hundreds of
In schools, it was noted that a special merit of such exercises was that
“reading material on the Great War is put into At the same
time, films and books pressed the regime’s views of the First World War.
Boys accepted the ‘‘Stab in the legend, read avidly Jiinger’s Storm
of Steel and Edwin Erich Dwinger’s Freikorps novel, The Last Riders.
Meanwhile, Zweig’s novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, was thrown onto
bonfires, along with Remarque’s Quiet on the Western Front. As during
the First World War, boys played grandiose games.”’ One recalled
later that “‘we cultivated this popular game of map reading also a