Timeline

03/18/1922-Hitler proclaims the first Nazi Party youth group

07/11/1926-The Hitler Youth is formally established with Kurt Gruber as its leader

08/19/1927-Kurt Gruber lead 300 Hitler Youths in a march at the Nuremberg Rally, earning a tribute from Hitler.

04/23/1929-The Hitler Youth is declared the only official youth group of the Nazi Party.

07/25/1930-The Bund Deutscher Madel ( League of German Girls) is founded.

10/30/1931-Baldur von Schirach is appointed Nazi Youth Leader.

04/13/1932-The SA and Hitler Youth are temporarily banned by the German Weimar government.

06/30/1933-Baldur von Schirach is named Youth Leader of the German Reich.

12/30/1936-The HItler Youth makes membership compulsory for all youths aged 10 to 18.

03/25/1939-A new tougher law concerning compulsory Hitler Youth membership conscripts all German boys aged 10 into the Hitler Youth.

08/30/1940-Artur Axmann succeeds Baldur von Schirach as Hitler Youth Leader.

03/13/1942-Hitler orders new military training camps to provide three weeks of mandatory training for all boys aged 16 to 18.

01/26/1943-Anti-aircraft batteries are officially manned solely by Hitler Youth boys.

04/20/1945-On his 56th birthday, Hitler pins medals on Hitler Youth boys outside his bunker in Berlin.

04/30/1945-Hitler commits suicide.

10/01/1946-At the Nuremburg Trials, ex Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity.