The Hitler Youth Program consisted of a male and female wing, each operating independently of each other. Similar to extracirricular activities today, the program required that boys and girls report to their local platoons for activities after school. Much like facism, the goals of each wing were clear-cut and straightforward.
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You can get a good understanding of how the Hitler Youth was like by comparing it to the Boy/Girl Scouts. The two are strikingly similar, aside from Nazism and military training.
Boy/Girl
Scouts of America
Hitler Youth
Include frequent exercising, training, learning, and fund raising
Emphasize community values, hard work, discipline, competency, physical fitness, and patriotism (instills values in members)
Reward members with ranks and medals/badges
Promoted Nazi ideals
Focused on preparing boys for combat; girls for motherhood
Emphasis on outdoor activities, such as biking, hiking, camping, skiing, going on field trips, and boating
Involve taking an oath
Promotes compassion for all
Focused on preparing boys and girls physically, mentally, and morally
“These boys and girls enter our organizations [at] ten years of age, and often for the first time get a little fresh air; after four years of the Young Folk they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years . . . And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months . . . And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left . . . the Wehrmacht [German armed forces] will take care of that.”
—Adolf Hitler (1938)
As described by Hitler himself: