In 1920, Adolf Hitler, authorized the formation of a Youth League of the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) based upon the principles of an earlier German youth group known as as the Wandervögel. The Wandervögel (translated as "Migratory Bird") were the German equivalent of the Boy Scouts of America 
Explorers with the Visalia, Calif., police department practiced with airsoft guns, which fire tiny pellets, before taking part in a drill in which they tried to overtake a hijacker holding hostages aboard a bus.
Shocking New York Times article about Boy Scouts being trained to disarm and kill American citizens stokes fears of Hitler YouthMore at voltairenet.org
No surprises here...
ReplyDeleteThis has been happening since the dawn of time.
Governments have always turned their impressionable but painfully ignorant youth against their seniors, and it's always worked... at least for awhile.
Bob - I guess it's like they say
ReplyDelete"There's nothing new under the sun."
Seems like they are following models,
be it Socialist, Communist or Nazi.
(I'm sure I left out a few.)