[Skybird]

The vast majority of boys and girls were in the Nazi youth organisations, it was part of young life like many children today join the kindergarten. But that alone did not make people Nazis. It was "in", it was cool, and there was plenty of anonymous pressure to join the HJ, and for young boys it also was adventurous and attractive to camp in the woods and have a camp fire. Much like the boy scouts.

Today, pretty many people have facebook accounts, because the social climate is such that for being in you need to want to have one. But not all facebook memembers are internet zombies.

The regime meant the HJ to be a brainwashing program. If it succeeded on even a majority of members, can and must be doubted.

Many German males also joined the oarty. But not always because they were convinced Nazis, but because it was part of the program if they wanted to secure their job to have a living for their family. Most soldiers in the Wehrmacht were no Nazis as well. They just had no choice different from deportation or execution.

Helmut Schmidt was FlAK-helper in the last phase of the war. Does that make him a Nazi, too?

I person should be called Nazi only if he/she is convinced of Nazi ideology in his/her thinking, defends and postulates it's content, and acts and lives accordingly.