Avoid Simple Answers to Complex History

Nazi officials review a parade of Hitler Youth in Nuremberg (#08063)
Date: 1933
Photo credit: William O. McWorkman, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Photographer: No photographer recorded


Photo description

Baldur von Schirach (saluting), leader of the Hitler Youth, and Julius Streicher (in light-colored jacket), editor of the antisemitic newspaper, ‘Der Stuermer,’ review a parade of Hitler Youth in Nuremberg. 

Relationship to guideline
This photograph illustrates that there were many factors contributing to the Holocaust.  The regimentation exemplified by the Hitler Youth represented the militaristic ideals furthered by the Nazi regime.  Manipulative propaganda such as that produced by Streicher was also an important catalyst for the Holocaust, along with Germany’s defeat in World War I, the failures of the Weimar Republic, and long-held antisemitic beliefs.
 

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