I listened to an interview with a man who was a Hitler Youth. He said, approximately, we were all afraid to say anything, even to our friends. You never knew who would turn you in for saying something that wasn’t approved of. The conversations consisted mostly of, “My, aren’t we having a grand time at Hitler Youth camp.”
I felt the same way at my final two jobs. Kids today are probably feeling the same way in classes. If you can get disciplined for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun-shape there is no logic or reason. School has become emotionally abusive.
It seems to be a hostile school environment.
It wasnt only the kids. It was all over. Had a fellow in Howards Grove WI who escaped from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. He was 12 or 13 at the time. His oldest sister and he were given passes on a cargo ship bound for Canada.
Nobody here would believe what he had to say about that Germany.
They never saw their family again. Went back to Hamburg to find some relatives and although they found a couple cousins, their cousins wanted nothing to do with them.