Demi, I hate to pull your thread off-topic from you again but I must step in to make some clarifications.
Yes, that the Hitler Youth organization functioned in part as a pre-military group is very much well known, and well cited. This is because it is fact, Baldur von Schirach as well as Wilhelm Keitel testified to this at Nuremberg. It is part of OKW record that the Hitler Youth did indeed have formal agreement with the Wehrmacht to this effect and there are clear record in both writing and participant memory of pre-military exercises. What you mention about the Hitler Youth as a 'breeding program' and leading into the Lebensborn project is what I'm asking about here.
On your wiki link to the Lebensborn article it clearly states that the Lebensborn project as a coercive breeding program is a falsity attributed to post-war sensationalism, it has an entire sub-article there titled "Post War Sensationalism" and in fact traces the idea to some fiction movie. See what I'm asking here? Nowhere in that article is the Hitler Youth mentioned.
Yes, the Hitler Youth was drawn upon for a fighting force, in fact for the Waffen SS as you did mention, in '43. This is the 12th SS Hitlerjugend division and from this came some famous names as well as infamous deeds. The HJ boys conscripted for it were really not officers, although they were fanatical fighters, and listed in history it mentions selection for the 12th SS is age, as the oldest youngsters were chosen, nothing about appearance. Perhaps athleticism and personality were factors for selection and promotion as they are in military forces and elsewhere today, but based on 'Nazi aesthetic' alone, not so much. But nowhere there does it mention sheer appearance as a factor. The officers and leaders for the 12th SS were chosen by their experience and by their competence, as they were elsewhere and are today.
The German army needed soldiers, and badly by those later years. This is well-known. German mothers were encouraged to have children, this is also well known and very researchable (check out the Mother's Cross), however searching for any historical document regarding Lebensborn as a coercive breeding program or the HJ group involvement in Lebensborn really doesn't turn anything up, even in the link you posted as a source.
As I said before, it's good to talk history and find verifications and look for them when one has a feeling or a memory that might indicate something that is verifiable. Having a memory about something or dreaming on it and then finding it in a history book is one thing, and it's pretty awesome. But it's very important that when turning to history or making reference to history in order to lead someone to a possible verification, to be able to prove that history really did happen. This really might sound like splitting hairs, but something that says [citation needed] actually does need a citation. It needs an actual historical source. A document, an order, even something in a memoir or public statement.
To make this personal, I like history a lot, and when I bring it up to teach someone or tell someone about something historical online, I find myself googling what I think I'll say in order to make sure the details are right. I don't want to mislead someone. It's not hard to do and helps ensure I don't confuse someone or invalidate their memory, on a forum like this.
Clearly you've an interest in the subject and I'd encourage pursuing that, but you will make it easier on yourself and others to do so in a more orderly and factual fashion. While there is a lot lost to memory, WWII and Nazi Germany are largely well-documented. Please stick to these sorts of things if you're going to advise others on the subject. It's not worth posting things like that if they can be picked apart as falsities. A 'Nazisploitation' film is not a good source. It's all right if you didn't know it, but that's why I brought it up.
Happy hunting,
Spatz
