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'''Herbert Norkus''' (26 July 1916 &ndash; 24 January 1932) was a [[Hitler Youth]] member who was killed by [[Communist Party of Germany|German Communist]]s. He became a role model and [[martyr]] for the Hitler Youth and was widely used in [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[propaganda]], most prominently as the subject of novel and film ''[[Hitler Youth Quex]]''.

== Background ==
Born to a [[working class]] family in the [[Tiergarten, Berlin|Tiergarten]] district of [[Berlin]], Norkus joined Naval Hitler Youth in 1931.<ref name=Baird112>Baird, Jay W.: To Die for Germany. Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, Bloomington 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mZihrV9IAJMC&pg=PA112 p. 112]</ref> He was reported to have enjoyed playing the piano and drawing. His father had been wounded in [[World War I]], and supposedly had Communist sympathies. The official Nazi biographies of Norkus claimed his father initially opposed his son's Nazi activities but was ultimately converted and became a Nazi too. 

Clashes between the Hitler Youth and the Communist [[Rotfrontkämpferbund|Red Front]] youth movement (Rote Jungfront) were becoming increasingly common as the NSDAP and the German Communist Party struggled for power in the waning days of the [[Weimar Republic]].

His comrades nicknamed him “Quex” because ”he carried out orders faster than [[Mercury (element)|quicksilver]]” (((lang-de|Quecksilber))).<ref name=Baird120>Baird, Jay W.: To Die for Germany. Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, Bloomington 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mZihrV9IAJMC&pg=PA120 p. 120].</ref>

== Death ==
[[File:Nazi Journal Munich Jan 27 1932 top.jpg|thumb|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'']]
On 24 January 1932, 15-year-old Herbert Norkus and other Hitler Youth members were distributing leaflets advertising a forthcoming Nazi rally. The group was confronted by Communists. Norkus fought them off and ran to a nearby house for help. A man answered and slammed the door in his face. Norkus was then stabbed six times by the pursuing Communists. He banged on another door, which was answered by a woman who tried to get him to a hospital. However, he died on arrival.<ref>Baird 115, Baird, Jay W.: To Die for Germany. Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, Bloomington 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mZihrV9IAJMC&pg=PA115 p. 115].</ref>

== ''"Hitlerjunge Quex"'' ==
((main|Der Hitlerjunge Quex))

Writer Karl Aloys Schenzinger made Norkus into a [[role model]] for the Hitler Youth in a popular Nazi novel, ''[[Hitlerjunge Quex|Der Hitlerjunge Quex]]'' (1932). The novel was required reading for all members of the Hitler Youth. In 1933, it was [[Hitlerjunge Quex (film)|made into a film]] directed by [[Hans Steinhoff]], with Hitler Youth member [[Jürgen Ohlsen]] in the lead role and [[Heinrich George]] in a major role as the boy's father.

== Honors ==

[[Passau]] named a street after Norkus.<ref>[[Anna Rosmus]] ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 249f</ref>

A German Navy [[school ship]] called the [[Gorch Fock (1933)|''Herbert Norkus'']] was named in his honor, but it was never completed because of the war. Many schools, streets and squares were also named after him during the Nazi period.

==See also==
;Others given posthumous fame by the Nazis: 
* [[Wilhelm Gustloff]]
* [[Horst Wessel]]
* [[Beer Hall Putsch#Putschists|List of Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch]]

== References ==
;Notes
((reflist))
;General reference
* Arnold Littmann: ''Herbert Norkus und die Hitlerjungen vom Beußelkietz.'' Berlin: Steuben. 1934.
* Hermann Gerstmayer (Hrsg.): ''Herbert Norkus, der Hitlerjunge.'' Berlin: Neues Verlagshaus für Volksliteratur. 1934. 
* Rudolf Ramlow: ''Herbert Norkus? - hier! Opfer und Sieg der Hitler-Jugend.'' Stuttgart u. a.: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. 1933.
* Wolfgang Schwarz: ''Kameradschaft Herbert Norkus.'' Breslau: Handel. 1934.
* Artur Axmann: ''"Das kann doch nicht das Ende sein." Hitlers letzter Reichsjugendführer erinnert sich.'' Koblenz: Bublies. 1995. (Norkus gehörte zu Axmanns Gefolgschaft in Berlin) ((ISBN|3-926584-33-5)).

== External links ==
* [http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html The History Place - Hitler Youth]

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