Figure 1.--This is a page from an album kept by a boy attending the Gebietsführerschule (Area Leadership School) at Aumühle. Aumühle is a German municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, about 21 km east of Hamburg nerar the Danish border. The program was conducted during a 2 week period in April 1938. The album page stresses boxing, restling, nd standing gusrd. (Europeans commonly put the day rather thsn the month first when writing a date.) This suggests the program was a short 2-week training program, not an actual school wih a full secondary program. The school building is much less impressive than several of the other Gebietsführerschule we have seen. Click on the imge to see the April 1938 class at Aumühle

In addition to the NAZI Party schools (NAPOLA and Adolf Hitler schools), we also find Gebietsführerschule (GFS--Area Laedership Schools). This complicates how we classify these schools. The Hitler Youth/ Hitler Jugend was boh the national youth group and a NAZI Party formation. We have been able to find less information on these schools. There were quite a few opened up around the country. By area it is meant that boys for the school came from the local area. We note about 20 such schools. Some were set up in very impressive buildings, even castles. Others like GFS Aumühle were more modest buildings. notice the HJ logo on the gate sign. We see GFS Langemarck at a much more impressive site--Schloss-Haldem a little to the south. As best we can determine, these were facilities for secondary students, although perhaps not a full secondary program. The training may have been specifically designed for youth leaders. Rather they may have been schools which provided specialty leadership training over a short period, although we do not know just what period. Here we seem to see a boy describing his 2-week training experience (figure 1). The leadership program may have been coordinated with the Adolf Hitler schools as they were closly conected to he HJ through Schirach. And we notice HJ emblems and flags in use at these schools. It was definitely not a summer program because we notice the boys in some images wearing the winter uniforms. The uniforms we see were standard HJ uniforms. The Gebietsführerschule was a program that took place during the school year. Available photographs clearly show older teenagers with some mid-teens. Their purpose appears to have been not to train NAZI Party leaders, but Hitler Jugend leaders--leaders for the huge NAZI national youth group programs. Strangely Google searches turn up all sorts of impressive buildings that were converted into Gebietsführerschule, but tell us nothing about just what the schools were. Perhaps readers will be able to tell us something about these schools.

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