Artur Axmann was the German national leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsleiter.
Axmann in September 1942
From left to right: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Himmler, Hess, von Schirach and Axmann, at a Hitler Youth rally, Berlin Sportpalast, 13 February 1939
Arthur Axmann and Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz with sailors of the Horst Wessel, October 1943
The Reich Youth Leader at the artillery school in Jüterbog where he inspected heavy artillery, 23 July 1943
The Hitler Youth was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it
Artur Axmann
…Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the German national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsleiter. Axmann was born in Hagen…
Hitler Youth members give the Nazi salute at a rally at the Lustgarten in Berlin, 1933.
Members of the Hitler Youth chosen by the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
Hitlerjugend camp in China in 1935, with permission of the Government of the Republic of China