Herbert Norkus

Herbert Norkus (26 July 1916 – 24 January 1932) was a Hitler Youth member who was killed by German Communists.

Born to a working class family in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Norkus joined Naval Hitler Youth in 1931.

[2] On 24 January 1932, 15-year-old Herbert Norkus and other Hitler Youth members were distributing leaflets advertising a forthcoming Nazi rally.

[3] Writer Karl Aloys Schenzinger made Norkus into a role model for the Hitler Youth in a popular Nazi novel, Der Hitlerjunge Quex (1932).

[4] A German Navy school ship called the Herbert Norkus was named in his honor, but it was never completed because of the war.

The NSDAP party organ Völkischer Beobachter reporting three days after the murder: We demand the immediate ban of the communist murder organization! The decent Germany demands protection against the blood frenzy of the red subhumans