The social effects of the Hitler Youth on Nazi Germany were extremely significant and long lasting. Because the Hitler Youth were trained to idolize Hitler and his will and rise-up against opposition, when Hitler preached that the Jews were responsible for the hardships of the German nation and laws were passed against them, it was these people who enforced those laws. These were the Germans who punished lawbreakers with violence and execution. When World War II broke out, it was these Germans who fought, killed, and died for the Nazi cause. It was also these Germans who rounded-up and eventually killed millions of Jews and other “inferior” people, known as the Holocaust.