Extracts from NSDAP regulations on the selection of the best Hitler Youth members as party members, and their later service in the party

DECREES, REGULATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS [Verfuegungen, Anordnungen, Bekanntgaben], issued by the Party Chancellery, published by the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Munich, Vol. I, Pages 298, 299, 303.
YOUNG REPLACEMENT PROBLEMS General
Order 99/37 of 11 August 1937 Admission of members of the Hitler Youth and of the League of German Girls to the NSDAP.
The party is the union of the best National Socialists. Therefore, it considers its most important tasks to bring the best Germans into the movement and to form from them the political Leader Corps of the German nation. Only he who has proven in the Hitler Youth that he is brave, courageous, and faithful, that he can sacrifice and is willing to subordinate himself to the community; only he who sees his highest and most sacred duty in the tireless service for the nation, who never loses courage and never gets tired and who faces with hard will the storms of the time, is worthy to join the party * * *
Order 11/40 of 30 November 1940
Leader Replacement from the HJ. Leadership To secure a full-time leader corps of the national socialist movement the necessary replacements—besides the training and readying of the leader replacements through the "Ordensburgen" of the NSDAP, and besides the supplementing from the ranks of the honorary subordinate leaders of the movement—properly qualified full-time HJ. leaders shall be used for the continuation cf their political work in the party service, after having resigned from the HJ service.