Reply #59: This is simply not true. HJ membership was different from membership [View All]

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in the NSDAP.

In 1945, the Nazi Party had 8.5 million members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP#General_membership

Most "of Germany's teenagers were incorporated into the Hitler Youth, and by 1940, the total membership reached eight million. Later war figures are difficult to calculate, since massive conscription efforts and a general call-up of boys as young as ten years old meant that virtually every young male in Germany was, in some way, connected to the Hitler Youth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HJ#Membership