Answer:
The Hitler Youth- essentially a militarized version of something like the Boy Scouts- was ironically, not founded by Hitler but by the Gauleiter ( Governor- County exec) Baldur Von Schirach, who served as the initial Reich Youth Leader- over the course of the war the original leader was replaced by Artur Axmann, who was an SS officer and a former boy-scout- the organization was a training ground for future Army and SS men- and directly contributed to the l2th SS panzer division- known as the Hitler youth division, so it was moving up in the ranks. The paralell female branches- rigourously gender-separate were known as the Girl"s league ( Bund Deutscher Madel) and there was another one, more like the YWCA. They were obviously not as militarized as the HJ proper, the HJ. Insignia was for a time one German S or Blitz flash ( half an SS man?) as the SS took over the org during the war this became the dominant sign.