Hitler Youth Flags

Figure 1.--We are not positive what flag the HJ boys here are carrying. The flag here looks like the Austrian flag, but I see a small swatica on it which of course the Austrian flag did not have. It may be the HJ flaf, although it had a swastica and not an eage at the center.

We do see HJ boys with some flags. We do not see them with the tri-color flag of the Ferman Republic. This was the national flag vefore the NAZI take over and for more than 2 years after the takeover (January 1933). Hutler of course heavily criticized the Weimar Republic and its association with the World War I Versailles Treaty. Notably we do not see the boys carrting the swastica flag, even adter 1935 when it became the official German flag. We note that often the single rune banner was the only banner or flag that the HJ units carried. We do note the swastica flag flying at HJ camps, but it was not very commonly carried at HJ events. More common was the red and white HJ flag which include the swatical in the center. We note some other flags that we can not identify.