Gents,
I have got these two documents recently and thought being worth to ask how common they are. Both are about 35 x 26 cm in size. The winner doc has a hardcover around the doc itself (a bit like a Kn/Cross award doc :-) ) and the document is made from almost precious deckle edged paper (at...
A lot of you will know these photos well but I thought I'd add a new thread to put them all in one place here on the forum. Robert Noss obtained 9 albums (in 2006 I think) from the family of Achim von Tippelskirch who was the nephew of General Kurt von Tippelskirch (holder of the Knights Cross...
After his review of the list of HJ martyrs Stabsführer Lauterbacher issued an instruction dated 3.10.1935 which named those to be included in the 'Unsterbliche Gefolgschaft' (Eternal Gefolgschaft) of the Hitler Youth. The list was revised again after this and the below picture shows the final...
In a danish archive I have found a stencilled list of HJ - KLV leaders in Denmark. There are also a few German leaders.
The list is part of several stencilled intelligence documents from 21 Army Group - Documents Team
Words in sharp brackets [ ] are my translations.
HJ = Hitler-Jugend
KLV =...
Tony would appear to have deserted us for some reason so rather than leaving this sub-forum as it is I thought it would be a good place to put translations from autobiographies/period books. Those of you who may not be able to read German might, I hope, find them useful.
So, to start us off...
bann
bdm
belt
berlin
congress
flag
frauenschaft
hartmann
heimabend
hitlerjugend
jungbann
lauterbacher
leader
march
order
reich
reichsparteitag
schirach
sudetenland
torch
trumpet
The first attempt to create a youth section within the NSDAP was the short-lived Jugendbund der NSDAP. The initial impulse came from Adolf Lenk, a piano maker from Munich who had joined the NSDAP aged 18 in 1921. He began to recruit boys aged between 14 and 18 for his 'Jungsturm Adolf Hitler'...