I mean, they are indoctrinated at around ten years old as far back as the early to mid 1930s and up to 1945, and so some of them must still be around in their 80s and even 90s now.
So aren't they offended by this movie?
My great uncle was Hitler Youth. He was conscripted but not indoctrinated. He fled as soon as he could with his family, west, as a kid. My grandpa was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, he fled as soon as he could. My family is Donauswabian, ethnic German from the former Jugoslavia. They had to billet German servicemen, and then end up being conscripted. They had no reason to fight. They got out as soon as they could during the confusion at the end of the war. They, fortunately, never had to fight.
There would be no reason to be offended. That was the Hitlerjugend. They were just kids. They didn't know any better.
I also had a relative who was in the Hitler Youth, to him, it was just like being in the boy scouts. In 1944, he was just one year too young, or they would have given him a rifle, a uniform and send off to die in the defense of Berlin. He never really talked about that era, but knew what the Nazi's preached was wrong in the end.
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