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How did this program come to an end?

 Overall the Hitler youth disbanded with the fall of Hitler. Most felt betrayed that after everything they did and learned, was for nothing. Some boys continued to fight in guerrilla groups. Their were still some children who tried to keep it alive by hiking for long periods of time and secretly learning Hitler studies. The Allies required all young Germans to undergo a de-Nazification process. They were required to take training lessons in democracy to undo all of the Nazi propaganda over the last 12 years. Many had been injured from the war and scared from what they had seen. Karma Rauhut states: "Can you picture a whole airplanes hanger full of corpses if you haven't seen them. It surpasses one's power of imagination.This inhuman criminality surpassed every power of imagination." (Life in the Hitler Youth by Jennifer Keeley, page 90)

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