[1] On 30 October 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party.

[2] In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of state power, all youth organizations in Germany were brought under Schirach's control[3][4] and he was designated the Jugendführer des Deutschen Reiches on 17 June.

[5] When Schirach was named Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Vienna on 8 August 1940, Artur Axmann succeeded him as Reichsjugendführer.

With the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth was disbanded by Allied authorities as part of the denazification process.

The court found him guilty of indoctrinating German youth with National Socialism until the end of the war.