DJ Deutsches Jungvolk knives

Some people believe that the small knives with the diamond on the scabbard were carried by DJ boys and some don't. I don't believe in them personally and I thought I'd share some timeline and general information.

The only knife carried by the DJ and HJ according to regulations was the 'Fahrtenmesser der Hitler-Jugend' and this is the standard knife we all know. The carrying of any other type of knife was forbidden by regulations dated 30.10.1936 and was mentioned again in an order dated the 19th of August 1938 which announced that the 'Blut und Ehre' knives would no longer be manufactured. There is no mention of any special knife for the DJ and of course there is also no mention of the 'BDM knife'. The latter is very probably a term coined by collectors in the old days struggling to find a term to describe an item they could not otherwise identify.

The 'Fahrtenmesser der Hitler-Jugend' remained the only knife carried by the the HJ and DJ up to and including 1942 which is the last regulation shown in the period book I'm using to source this information.

Would these small 'DJ' knives have been introduced at this relatively late stage of the war? I have no proof one way or the other for the period after 1942 but I seriously doubt that they were and until I see photographic evidence of a DJ boy wearing a strange small knife with the diamond on the scabbard I'll be viewing these knives as nothing more than either souvenirs made for for GIs or souvenirs made during the period.