Figure 1.--One short clip shows a boy wearing a short pants suit finding NAZI propaganda in his lunch box. By the 1930s, boys did not go to school dressed in suits, let alone a short pants suit. A few private schools had short pants uniforms, but this is not for the most part how American boys dressed for public primary schools. The girl he is with wears Shirtley Temple ringlrt curls. That was popylar at thge time. She wears a blouse ior dress with a Peter Pan collar. This seems like rather a silly things to bve cdoing. We are not entirely sure it actually occurred. The film did not explain how the proppaganda got in the luncvh boxes. Of course mom packed the lunches. I think the implication was that the NAZIs could work unobserved and even slip in a note or two in lunch boxes for children to see. A shop owner is depicted slipping the leaflet in the lunch box. That was highly unlikely in actuality. The boy was clearly puzzled. Put your cursor on the image to see the leaflet. I do not know if it wa an actual Friends/Bund leaflet or even similar to one.

Quite a number of children are depicted in "Confessions oif a Nazi Spy". The costuming seems reasonably accurate. One of the conspirators had a todler son. He is dressed in what looks like a sweater and long pants. This was common duringvbthe winter. The one obvious mistake is the outlandish caps the shoeshine boys wear. Also probanly some of the boys would have worn knickers at the time. Knickers were declining in popularity, but there was usually some boys wearing knickers in any group of boys during the 1930s. One short clip shows a boy wearing a short pants suit finding NAZI propaganda in his lunch box. By the 1930s, boys in primary did not go to school dressed in suits, let alone a short pants suit. A few private schools had short pants uniforms, but this is not for the most part how American boys dressed for public primary schools. Suits were still work in secondary schools, but this varied from school to school. A reader tells us that the boys all wore suits at his junior high school in 1940, of course long pants suits. Interested readers can look at the HBC 1930s school pages. The boy even has a hankerchief in his jacket pocket. I have the idea that a boy showing up at school dressed like that was likekly to get beat up. The girl he is with is more reasonably dressed. She wears Shirtley Temple ringlrt curls. That was popylar at thge time. She wears a blouse or dress with a Peter Pan collar. There are also children at the NAZI rally who are not in uniform. They wear clothing thast seems reaonably period correct.