Welcome to HJ-Research
Welcome to HJ-Research.
HJ-Research offers collectors of Hitler Youth (HJ), Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) and Jungmädel (JM) militaria, academics and those with a general interest the opportunity to discuss all aspects of this Third Reich youth movement and to show and discuss its militaria collectables. Training, organisation, equipment, insignia, uniforms, the history of the movement and its precursors are among the many, many subject areas covered.
A further aim of the forum is to strive to consolidate, validate and to deepen information. In doing this we aim to remove the many misconceptions and grey areas that facilitate those who would flood the collector market with fakes.
In order to uncover those fakes or to confirm the authenticity of a given item or statement, the collector must look to history first. History and detective work carried out in the original period literature can often give us the answers we need and where it does not give us a full answer we should employ logic and our collective experience. These are some of the strengths of HJ-Research and we are always looking for like-minded souls to join us in the search for new information and to share what they have learned.
We look forward to hearing from you on the forums!
HJ-Research offers collectors of Hitler Youth (HJ), Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) and Jungmädel (JM) militaria, academics and those with a general interest the opportunity to discuss all aspects of this Third Reich youth movement and to show and discuss its militaria collectables. Training, organisation, equipment, insignia, uniforms, the history of the movement and its precursors are among the many, many subject areas covered.
A further aim of the forum is to strive to consolidate, validate and to deepen information. In doing this we aim to remove the many misconceptions and grey areas that facilitate those who would flood the collector market with fakes.
In order to uncover those fakes or to confirm the authenticity of a given item or statement, the collector must look to history first. History and detective work carried out in the original period literature can often give us the answers we need and where it does not give us a full answer we should employ logic and our collective experience. These are some of the strengths of HJ-Research and we are always looking for like-minded souls to join us in the search for new information and to share what they have learned.
We look forward to hearing from you on the forums!