Figure 1.--The boys here look to us like an unidentified Scout group in the early 1930s before the NAZIs seized power Tey do not wear the icnc Baden Powell Lemon-squeezer hat which elps identify Scouts in the early years. Virtually all te cout groups when founded adopted this hat, but gradually began adopting more destinctive styles. Rather they wear a campaign cap. Unlike America and Britain, there was no one national Scout association. Germany at th time had severa Scoutassciations, many with religious afiliations. There were also secular associations. The rest of the uniform has a Scout look to it. Here we are guessing that the boys are German. The background looks like a central European city. The store sign has a German name, but there were many Germans with stores in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The caps have a Hungarian look to us. So they coud be Scouts from either of those countries, although we think Germany is the most likely country. Perhaps our readers will have some insights.

The boys here look to us like an unidentified Scout group in the early 1930s before the NAZIs seized power Tey do not wear the icnc Baden Powell Lemon-squeezer hat which elps identify Scouts in the early years. Virtually all te cout groups when founded adopted this hat, but gradually began adopting more destinctive styles. Rather they wear a campaign cap. Unlike America and Britain, there was no one national Scout association. Germany at th time had severa Scoutassciations, many with religious afiliations. There were also secular associations. The rest of the uniform has a Scout look to it. Here we are guessing that the boys are German. The background looks like a central European city. The store sign has a German name, but there were many Germans with stores in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The caps have a Hungarian look to us. So they coud be Scouts from either of those countries, although we think Germany is the most likely country. Perhaps our readers will have some insights. The boys look to be Cub age, but German Scous do not seem to havehad destinct Cub programs. The image can be dated more easily. The boy at the left wears a short pants soutfit with black long stockings which we see quite a bit in Germany. An as the NAZIs banned Scouting, the photograph had to be taken before 1933. Catholic Scouts were given a short reprive, but we doubt if younger Scouts would hve appeared so publically as they were sometimes attacked by HJ boy.