The Reich's future was not christian.
The Hitler Youth (HJ) was an organization designed to be the foundation of a new German society founded on the National Socialist worldview of Blood and Soil.
This ideology rejected christianity and replaced it with a racial-nationalistic faith centred on the German people, their ancestral land, and their historical destiny.
This rejection can be seen clearly in the literary works of Reichsbauernführer Richard Darre, which featured in the Official NSDAP publication "Of blood and Soil"
The HJ aimed to create a generation that would embody this new belief system, breaking away from christian teachings and instead embracing a militant, nature-based outlook on life.
The key tenets of the Hitler youths non-christian ideological worldview are described in the book, "Our Faith," which was authored by the HJ leader Oberbannführer Gottfried Griesmayr
ln January of 1934, it was declared that the ideological education of all German youth was now the sole responsibility of the National Socialist state and all church rights to the ideological education of the youth were now revoked and forbidden.
All christian youth groups were banned from holding sports events, outdoor hiking, and christian youth group activities.
This was designed to encourage all youth in the Reich to join the Hitler youth and the League of German Girls. (BDM)
The HJ began disrupting church meetings and intimidating church clergy that were resistant to the state mandated changes to the ideological education of the youth.
In late January of 1934, an all-out war of annihilation was declared by the HJ against every christian youth movement that existed in Germany.
An all out war that led to death threats against clergy members and culminated in Reinhard Heydrich issuing orders during the Röhm Putsch for the "liquidation" of Probst, the main figurehead of the catholic youth movement who was subsequently executed.
During this time, the HJ, accompanied by the SS, regularly attacked, assaulted, and bashed rival christian youth groups who would not convert to the HJ.
During these attacks, the HJ stripped them of their uniforms, christian badges, and all their christian pennants and flags, which they later burnt in bonfire celebrations afterwards.
In just one single attack,1800 members of a Catholic youth group were beaten shamed and pressured to join the HJ.
At the Nuremberg party rally in September 1934, the HJ were performing anti-christian songs that pledged their allegiance to Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist state, and the Volksgemeinschaft
Membership in the HJ was made compulsory under the 1936 Hitler youth law, and the full integration of all German youth into the HJ and BDM began.
In 1937, in the official NSDAP newspaper the Völkischer Beobachter, Hitler declared:
"There is only one German people and, therefore, there can be only one German youth!
There can be only one German Youth Movement because there is only one education of youth and only one youth training program.
This Reich stands, and it builds further upon its youth.
This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but it will take youth and educate and train it itself."
The Hitler youths' anti-christian ideological worldview can be seen in the many articles published in the official NSDAP HJ magazine "Wille und Macht"
And also in the official Handbook for schooling the Hitler youth
Membership in the HJ and BDM peaked at approximately 8.7 million German youths in 1940.
The future of the 1000-year Reich was not going to be christian.
