Figure 1.--Here we see a primary class in 1934. Here 10 of the children have orn their their HJ uniforms. This is more than we normally see and note that it was in 1934 when membership was not yet compulsory. And looking at the children, many may have not yet been 10 years old. We suspect here that the teacher encouraged the children to wear their uniforms. One of the pins on the teacher's lapels may be a NAZI-Party pin.

The children did have their Hitler Jugend (HJ) uniforms which they sometimes wore to school. We note many school portaits at the time with none or only a few of the children wearing their HJ uniforms. Some photographs show quite a few chldren wearing their HJ uniforms. There seems to have been no national policies on this. Some parents may have encouraged or discouraged this. Teachers or school authorities may also have had some impact. And the children themselves surely had some say in the matter. There does ot seem to have been a special day, as was common in America when children periodically wore their Scout uniforms. One German reader tells us that this was uncommon, although he remembers older boys wearing their HJ uniforms to school on occasions when there was some special event. Some boys did wear their black DJ/HJ short pants to school as they were a utilitarian garment with many pockets. [Wellershaus] Of course all the insignias and badges were on the brown shirt. We have only a few images of school cildren wearing their HJ uniforms and do not yet fully understand how to interpret them.

Sources

Aryaman Stefan Wellershaus, e-Mail, July 30, 2002.

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