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National Socialist Youth of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Ungdom, abbreviated DNSU) was a Danish National Socialist youth party. From the beginning, the DNSU aimed to educate National Socialist youth under the age of 18 to become good National Socialist citizens. The organization was founded in 1932 and disbanded together with the DNSAP in 1945.
Foundation
[edit]The DNSU was founded in October 1932 after the reorganization of its parent party, the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (DNSAP). The members of the party who were under the age of 18 were separated from the SA into an organization of their own. The organization was called the National Socialist Youth (NSU). In reality, only one branch was established in Copenhagen, and after only a month, the branch left the party along with the leader of the DNSAP branch in Copenhagen, Wilfred Petersen, who founded his own Nazi party.
The former branch in Copenhagen continued the activities of Wilfred Petersen's National Socialist Party (NSP) under the name DNSU, and two organizations with the same name now existed. DNSAP, however, only on paper.
On 1 September 1934, the DNSUwas re-founded by Carl Christian Blangsted Stender, who, together with DNSAP's first leader Cay Lembcke, were pioneers in the Danish scout movement. In the early years, it was called "Danske Drenge" (Danish Boys) so as not to be confused with Wilfred Petersen's DNSU. It was not until 1936 that the name was changed back to Nationalsocialistisk Ungdom (NSU). In the early years, the organization had only a few members, and from the outside, the DNSU most resembled a scout movement.
Purpose
[edit]The DNSU aimed to educate National Socialist youth under the age of 18 to become good National Socialist citizens. When the DNSU members turned 18, the SA was ready to take over their education. The political education was not nearly as significant as it later became.
Development and symbols
[edit]During the 1930s, the organization developed. Like the SA, the DNSU became a parallel organization to the DNSAP with its own uniform and its own symbol: the Sun Wheel. At first, in a largely similar style with the same methods as in the scout movement. First Lieutenant A. V. Schubert strengthened the bureaucracy and neglected youth work. This changed when, on 15 January 1939, an officer in the Royal Life Guards, Christian Frederik von Schalburg was appointed national youth leader of the DNSU. With Schalburg's entry into the organization, the organization got its own organizational plan, and the organization changed its character from a scout movement to a military preparation with the integration of the DNSU members into the Waffen-SS as an important objective.
Like the Hitler Youth in Germany, the DNSAP was active in the education of Nazi youth. Youth was the future. After Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, the DNY began to pressure young people to join the Waffen-SS in the fight against communism. Many DNSU members followed the call.
Leaders
[edit]C.F. von Schalburg was on paper the national youth leader until his death on 2 June 1942. However, during two long periods as national youth leader, Schalburg was busy elsewhere and could not devote himself to the work of the NSU. Both times an acting national youth leader was appointed in his place: In 1940, von Schalburg had gone to Finland to fight on the Finnish side against the Soviet Union. When he returned to Denmark, the country had been occupied and he was depressed. The second time, Schalburg had joined the Waffen-SS and fought against the communists on the Eastern Front. Here he was killed when, on 2 June 1942, as commander of the Free Corps Denmark, he either stepped on a land mine or was hit by shrapnel from Russian artillery.
The new leader of the NSU, Hans Jensen, separated the NSU from the DNSAP on 15 September 1943. The NSU now received its funds directly from the occupying power, and the level of activity could be increased. In the first years of the war, the NSU was plagued by internal power struggles, but with Hans Jensen's appointment as national youth leader after von Schalburg's death, the power struggles stopped.
Dissolution
[edit]On 15 March 1945, when the war was almost over, the NSU was again subordinated to the DNSAP. DNSAP had long been a party in disintegration and the NSU was also slowly disintegrating.