German Reich era ROTC?

rotccadet2010 · Post by **rotccadet2010** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:54 pm

Hi I'm in Army ROTC and was wondering if during WW2 did Germany have it's own version of ROTC?

rotccadet2010 · Post by **rotccadet2010** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:39 pm

Anyone?

deradler1 · Post by **deradler1** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:19 pm

The German version of ROTC was the Hitler Youth for young kids and the Workers Party that required young people serve in public works before entering the military. It was kind of like the Civil Conservation Corps. The Workers Party groups were the ones that built the Autobahn transportion system that allowed for the transportation of masses of men and material from the east to the western side of the Reich during the war.

wehrmacht soldat · Post by **wehrmacht soldat** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:57 am

In case anybody didn' t know what ROTC stands for:

Reserve Officers Training Corps

5RANGLIAN · Post by **5RANGLIAN** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:45 am

Apparently US Army budgets are now so tight, that ROTC cadets are now expressly forbidden from doing any original research before posting bone questions on internet forums

I thought you guys were university students, FFS.

Carl Schwamberger · Post by **Carl Schwamberger** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:00 am

Find a copy of Siegfried Knappe's biography 'Soldat' . He describes his experince in becoming a officer of the Wehrmacht in the 1930s.

Mansal D · Post by **Mansal D** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:40 pm

Basically Hitler Jugend or Jungvolk. In some cases some kids went strait from Jungvolk to the Wehrmacht or the 12.SS.