![A parade of young Austrian women, members of the Nazi youth organization the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Maedel). [LCID: 03565]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/94f4423b-27f8-4bc5-8eda-13e09294b0cf.jpg)
A parade of young Austrian women, members of the Nazi youth organization the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Maedel). Graz, Austria, February 20, 1938.
The Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls were the primary tools that the Nazis used to shape the beliefs, thinking and actions of German youth.
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