Hitler Youth membership grew from a fringe club of a few hundred boys in the 1920s into a compulsory organization of millions by the eve of the Second World War. This History Hit episode traces that arc from early Nazi Party propaganda drives through the Gleichschaltung years, when rival youth groups were banned or absorbed and school curricula were rewritten to feed the movement. Archival photographs and film show boys drilling with wooden rifles, camping trips built around racial ideology lessons, and the League of German Girls training young women for motherhood and domestic labor under the regime's terms. Historians walk through how the organization moved from marching bands and summer camps into wartime service, with teenagers eventually conscripted into anti-aircraft units and, by 1945, into the Volkssturm defending Berlin itself. The film keeps its focus on mechanism rather than spectacle: how a state persuades children to police each other's loyalty, report on their own parents, and volunteer for combat. It closes with the postwar reckoning over what to do with a generation raised inside the system.