Herbert Norkus (July 26, 1916 - January 24, 1932 in Berlin) was a Hitler Youth member who was killed by German Communists. He became a role model and martyr for the Hitler Youth and was widely used in Nazi propaganda, most prominently as the subject of novel and movie Hitler Youth Quex.
Read more about Herbert Norkus: Background, Death, "Hitlerjunge Quex", Honors
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“I got me flowers to straw thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.”
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