Hi,
As I mentioned in post 2, what you have there are pennants for:
Jungmädelgruppe 11, JM-Untergau B4
BDM-Mädelgruppe 3, BDM-Untergau 362
The principle is the same for both pennants and indeed for the HJ and DJ flags but let's take the Jungmädel pennant and use that to illustrate how the numbers worked.
The attachment shows an organisational chart from 1935 showing all organisational structures within the Hitler Youth at around the time your JM pennant was in use. Going from smallest unit to largest here's what the chart shows for the JM:
Jungmädelschaft consisting of around 10 girls.
Jungmädelschar (consists of 4 Jungmädelschaften, so 40 girls)
Jungmädelgruppe (consists of 4 Jungmädelscharen)
This is the level represented by your pennant (your BDM pennant represents the equivalent organisational level within the BDM structure).
Jungmädelring (consists of 3-5 Jungmädelgruppen)
Jungmädeluntergau (consists of 4-6 Jungmädelringe) (
this is the highest level of pennant carried)
Obergau (consists of 20 Jungmädeluntergaue and BDM Untergaue).
There were only two organisational levels which were authorised to carry pennants with the the stitched number system: Jungmädelgruppe and Jungmädeluntergau (where yours has
11/B4 the Jungmädeluntergau pennant would have had
B4). Within the BDM the organisational levels authorised to carry pennants with the stitched numbering system were BDM-Untergau and BDM-Mädelgruppe.
There were changes to this structure in later years (in earlier years it had been different too) but these two organisational levels remained the only ones authorised to carry pennants with this numbering system.
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