National Socialist Schoolchildren's League
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The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League (Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund), known under the acronyms NSS and also, more rarely NSSB, was a National Socialist organisation for primary school pupils providing a student council
Student council
Student council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...

 and child protection system in Germany from 1929 till 1933.

History

The league began roughly around 1927 as the Hitler Jugend-Schülergruppen. It was established as the Nationalsozialistischer Schülerbund by Adrian von Renteln
Adrian von Renteln
Theodor Adrian von Renteln was an activist and politician in Nazi Germany...

 in 1929 by unifying the scattered groups under one authority.

In 1929 Von Renteln became the leader of the Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung...

, an organisation he would clearly favour and to which he would give increasingly wider powers. Von Renteln would stay as leader (Reichsführer) of the National Socialist Schoolchildren's League until the 16th June 1932.

The NSS targeted small children of schoolgoing age who went on to become the harbingers of Nazism
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

.

The National Socialist Schoolchildren's League was merged to the Hitler Youth on the 20th May 1933. The event was marked with a youth-group celebration.
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