A thread about the "Bündische Jugend", as in existence after the war was started.
In various threads the pre HJ youth organizations are mentioned. Maybe a general
thread of such early organizations is also of interest and for that reason: of interest
might be this book:
Die Bündische Zeit...
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'...