yes. I lived with a German family when I was 17 and later, in grad school, worked with two men from Germany. Horst told me that he'd wanted to be in Hitler's youth and his family had played some sort of trick on him, to make him think that he could. He was very disappointed. I'd say that what drove my mentor Manny's theoretical and empirical research interests was to understand this dynamic--how even he, a Jewish youth, felt pride in his nation during that era. His family managed to escape to the US. Gunter was a radical, a university student at the time, but could attest to the same phenom.
Kelley