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Interesting parallels between Hitler Youth and TBS programs.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-06-26 06:40:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:
"Lets examine the Hitler Youth Movement. For a bit of historical reference be reminded that the Hitler Youth Movement came about prior to WW 2 where young men were indoctrinated into the folds of the National Socialist Party at an early age. Many of these young men went on to fight against Allied forces in the latter years of the war. Many of them were killed, but a few distinguished themselves quite bravely in combat.
Rather tragic that children had to be utilized to further the goals of a megalomaniac like Hitler.
Here is a small piece from Wikpedia about the Hitler Youth. Go see it for yourself at the following link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
I find the similarities between TBS schools and the Hitler Youth Movement rather striking and at the same time disturbing.
I will only compare the school that I am familiar with directly, and this of course is Three Springs.
Three Springs residents are subjected to a stage system that gives them increasing rank and responsibility.
The Hitler Youth Movement has a rank system based on the German SS military rank system. This grants those who earn promotions increased rank and responsibilities.
Three Springs residents are required to submit to the standards of the program and follow directions without question.
Hitler Youth Members subjected to a military style discipline probably had the living shit beat out of them if they dared to disobey an order.
Three Springs residents participated in ceremonies to mark the passage from one stage to the next.
Hitler Youth members went through rites of passage ceremony to signify the advancement from one level of the Hitler youth system to the next.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/jufeier.htm
Three Springs residents are exposed to a forced conditioning of their behaviors via emotional and physical controls. The purpose of this conditioning is to gain complaince of the resident and make them more suggestible to the whims of the program.
Hitler youth members were brainwashed into blindly following Hitler into the very destruction of their own country at a horrible price to all involved.
I am sure someone can come up with more comparisons. Feel free to fly right at it, and by all means if you have applicable links feel free to add them to your post.
To conclude I often have wondered if the founders of TBS intentionally took a page from the Hitler Youth manual? I doubt they ever intended to do so, but the end results seem very much the same.
The hitler
To go to Journal of Applied Polymer Science go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com and then journal search and put the journal number and year
-- Journal of Applied Polymer Science Vol. 47, 1984
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1)Was his REAL name "Hitler",or did he make it up?
2)Are there any people in Germany/Austria that still use the surname "Hitler" (Im not including any radical types,just people who really have that name)?
Anonymous:
"To conclude I often have wondered if the founders of TBS intentionally took a page from the Hitler Youth manual?" is truly one of the most asinine questions, rhetorical or otherwise, ever written.
Did you ever look at public schools, where there is a level system (grades), increasing privileges at higher levels, rites of passage between levels ("moving up" ceremonies, graduations)?
Or employment situations, with bosses/managers having power over the subordinates/peons/serfs. Do it or don't get paid thus don't eat?
I suppose you prefer a classless society, with all people equal and having equal freedoms, rights and powers -- although it leaves open the question of leadership without reward >> recognition >> greater effective power >> >>so not all people equal in the end, doesn't it?
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-06-26 07:33:00, Anonymous wrote:
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On 2006-06-26 06:40:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:
"Lets examine the Hitler Youth Movement. For a bit of historical reference be reminded that the Hitler Youth Movement came about prior to WW 2 where young men were indoctrinated into the folds of the National Socialist Party at an early age. Many of these young men went on to fight against Allied forces in the latter years of the war. Many of them were killed, but a few distinguished themselves quite bravely in combat.
Rather tragic that children had to be utilized to further the goals of a megalomaniac like Hitler.
Here is a small piece from Wikpedia about the Hitler Youth. Go see it for yourself at the following link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
I find the similarities between TBS schools and the Hitler Youth Movement rather striking and at the same time disturbing.
I will only compare the school that I am familiar with directly, and this of course is Three Springs.
Three Springs residents are subjected to a stage system that gives them increasing rank and responsibility.
The Hitler Youth Movement has a rank system based on the German SS military rank system. This grants those who earn promotions increased rank and responsibilities.
Three Springs residents are required to submit to the standards of the program and follow directions without question.
Hitler Youth Members subjected to a military style discipline probably had the living shit beat out of them if they dared to disobey an order.
Three Springs residents participated in ceremonies to mark the passage from one stage to the next.
Hitler Youth members went through rites of passage ceremony to signify the advancement from one level of the Hitler youth system to the next.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/jufeier.htm
Three Springs residents are exposed to a forced conditioning of their behaviors via emotional and physical controls. The purpose of this conditioning is to gain complaince of the resident and make them more suggestible to the whims of the program.
Hitler youth members were brainwashed into blindly following Hitler into the very destruction of their own country at a horrible price to all involved.
I am sure someone can come up with more comparisons. Feel free to fly right at it, and by all means if you have applicable links feel free to add them to your post.
To conclude I often have wondered if the founders of TBS intentionally took a page from the Hitler Youth manual? I doubt they ever intended to do so, but the end results seem very much the same.
The hitler
To go to Journal of Applied Polymer Science go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com and then journal search and put the journal number and year
-- Journal of Applied Polymer Science Vol. 47, 1984
--- End quote ---
"
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1)Was his REAL name "Hitler",or did he make it up?
2)Are there any people in Germany/Austria that still use the surname "Hitler" (Im not including any radical types,just people who really have that name)?"
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Hitler
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2006-06-26 06:40:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:
To conclude I often have wondered if the founders of TBS intentionally took a page from the Hitler Youth manual? I doubt they ever intended to do so, but the end results seem very much the same.
The hitler
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Gookin, you should talk to some of those aging Seedlings. I remember one gal talking about having had the 'priviledge' to clean Art and Shelly's mansion and having been told explicitly not to read the books on psychology and Hitler Youth that Art had there. She did anyway.
Here's a search link for mentions of hitler youth in The Seed Discussion Forum.
In a nutshell, I think that yes, some of the founders, proponants and designers of these programs were very much aware of the Hitler Youth and/or Korean brainwashing techniques they have been using. But most of the people involved are not concious of it. Going all the way back to the early days of the Seed and still to this day, when you ask a true believer about brainwashing, they laugh and tell you they don't feel brainwashed. The more things change the more they stay the same.
To my mind, the most troubling part of this question is why we're using these same techniques on suspected terrorists. We know from every indication--firsthand experience, research and common sense--that these techniques are not effective at yielding acurate, useful information nor are they good for rehabilitation. The only consistent 'benefit' seems to be that this is a dandy way to break a spirit and to change a person's (or group of people) very beliefs and even memories.
Being sleepy can impair someone's ability to do thier job. People
can sleep at home and come to the job with sleepiness still in their system. The sleepiness can still be there long after the employee has slept. When someone is found to be sleepy on the job, they can claim that they went to sleep the night before. The only solution to this problem is to ban employees from sleeping.
--Arthur Slabosky
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AtomicAnt:
One big difference between the Hitler Youth and modern behavior modification programs is that the Hitler Youth were enthusiastic volunteers.
I recently watched a program on the History Channel about Hitler Youth where they interviewed some former members. They said it started out like the Boy Scouts. It was like a big boys club, complete with camping and adding parades and military drills, including mock combat.
They also said they bought into the propaganda because they were impressionable youth. Coercion wasn't needed because the boys found it both fun and prestigious. They wanted to be there.
When these boys were thrown into combat near the very end of the War, they often did not know the extent of the danger in these assignments. There was a movie about a group that was sent to guard a bridge (I wish I could remember the name) and it wasn't until too late that some of them realized they had been abandoned by the real Army. Some gave their lives with devotional zeal, but others surrendered quickly and survived. Many were never issued working weapons.
In our day, we still see child soldiers only worse. There is that general in Africa that raids villages and takes the kids. Each night, the kids leave their villages and hide in the fields and forests to avoid capture. This guy runs his child army much like a cult. I'm trying to remember where I found the article.
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