Figure 1.--Here we have a Norwegian youth group in Germany during the war. It would be a group of the Umghird. This nay be a sports goup or participants at a Hitler Youth summer camp. Notice the V-formation. The left wing of the V may be German HJ boys. The Germans tried to coop the V for victory symbol as their own, but not very sucessfully. This photograph was probbly taken in 1941 ir 42. After 42, it began to become more dangerous to travel because of the war.

The Hitler Youth was a German youth movement. The NAZIs organized Hitler Youth units in some neigboring countries where there were Germans living or where there were 'acceptable' Aryan populatioms. Local children, however, ere not allowed to join these groups unless they at least one German parent. We are not sure if this occured in Norway. There do not seem ohave been many German kids. What happened in Norway and other northern Europen countries (Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France) was that Fascist political parties were allowed to form their own youth groups mimmiking the Hitler Youth. This did not occur in Luxembourg because it was annexed to the Reich. These groups with valuable genetic material were invited to participate in HJ summer camps in the Reich. Interestingly, this was not the case with the Italian Bailla. We have found no evidence of mixed cmping activitis either in Germany or Italy. The Germans tended to look down on the Italians in contrast to the people of the Nordic countries.