The Aryan obsession (blond hair, blue eyes) is seen all throughout the brochure, which will always confound me since Hitler was neither.
Fun fact, shooting ranges at the kermis were introduced during the ww2 occupation
These books were pretty popular as part of public propaganda, they were also adapted for other domestic youth movements as mandatory reading such as KSA “Knapenboeken” or versions for girls in the Dietse Meisjesscharen. The point was to teach Flemish nationalist and NSDAP songs, boost nationalism, explain Germany’s POV of the war and spread the concepts of race purity. They were also the main reason why many prominent Flemish nationalist concepts got so wide spread, like the use of the Flemish lion or the concept of the language border, which were pretty much unknown to the public until that point.
My (ex-)scout troop during its long and illustrious existence only ‘stopped’ for one year. It was during the war, when they were given the choice of disbanding or becoming part of the Jugend. They respectfully declined and disbanded.
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The Aryan obsession (blond hair, blue eyes) is seen all throughout the brochure, which will always confound me since Hitler was neither.
Fun fact, shooting ranges at the kermis were introduced during the ww2 occupation
These books were pretty popular as part of public propaganda, they were also adapted for other domestic youth movements as mandatory reading such as KSA “Knapenboeken” or versions for girls in the Dietse Meisjesscharen. The point was to teach Flemish nationalist and NSDAP songs, boost nationalism, explain Germany’s POV of the war and spread the concepts of race purity. They were also the main reason why many prominent Flemish nationalist concepts got so wide spread, like the use of the Flemish lion or the concept of the language border, which were pretty much unknown to the public until that point.
My (ex-)scout troop during its long and illustrious existence only ‘stopped’ for one year. It was during the war, when they were given the choice of disbanding or becoming part of the Jugend. They respectfully declined and disbanded.