Hitler Youth: Activities--School

Figure 1.--This looks like some kind of after school activity in 1935. Notice that the older boys are wearing their HJ uniforms. I'm not sure what the flag is.

Our information about HJ school activities is very limited at this time. We believe that such avtivities were limited, in part because the HJ did not fully trust the schools. When the NAZIs seized control (1933), there were many reachers who were not sympthetic to the NAZIs or actually hostile. While open defiance was quickly eliminated, covert resistnce was more of a problem. It took several years to gain full control over the schools and curiculum. Another factor was that a good report from their HJ unit was important to persue one's education. We do not note HJ boys and girld wearing their uniforms to school very commonly. We think there my have been some special celebrations at school where the children wore their uniforms such as, for example, Hitler's birthday. We do not in school portraits that occassional a boy or two are wearing their uniforms. There may have been some after school activities.