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Originally posted by kstar
Well, they could very well be exceptions to the rule, and for all I know, they might have been enrolled but never informed of this. They did say that if their father had been a party member they would have had to join and participate, but he wasn't.

As to profession and areas of cities/ the country: They were professor's children, as were my grandmother and her siblings, maybe since the profession was considered more subversive and liberal, they didn't try to recruit those children?

Correctamundo... totalitarian and fascist governments can't stand academia and intelligentsia - can't have any freethinkers subvert the gospel spouted from the party line.

Along with the Hitler Youth requirement to be racially suitable, the children and his or her family had to be politically reliable as well.