Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting on the college's role in the war, von Hartz stated that he believed institutions for higher learning should continue to educate youth "to work out its own salvation. Our generation didn't do so well," he added...
...German home broadcast recorded in London, Nazi authorities ranted against "the disgusting behavior of boys and girls. . . . Even maimed officers complain that the lads do not respect them. . . . Our youth displays insolence instead of pride. . . ." So by decree all children from the age of ten up were taken out of school, ordered to work on German farms from eight to twelve hours a day until next November...
Like the unbreakable clergy of their country, they have earned a conspicuous place in the anti-Nazi Book of Martyrs. Three months later the fight began in earnest. Quisling ordered all pupils between ten and 16 to join the Nazi Youth Movement, all teachers to join the Laerersamband...
Junior Warriors. Meanwhile Government Youth Training Centers, greatly enlarged since pre-war days, teach British children leaving school at 14 the mastery of machine tools, the use of electric welding. The Church Lads Brigades learn how to fight fires and repair bomb damage. Others, given "the privilege of defending their homeland against invasion," march and train with oldsters in the Home Guard. More than a million youngsters are on call for national service. Thousands of others learn navigation, signaling and aircraft identification in eager preparation for enlistment at 18 in the services. Most popular service-training organization...
Speaking before the newly-formed National Council for Books in Wartime in New York on "American Youth and the War," he outlined a plan for selecting officer material in the high school period, and to have these students subsidized by "a widespread system of military scholarships, carefully allotted to various areas and impartially administered." The details and funds for such a program, he saw as they duty of Congress to administer...