Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified group, at least we think it is a youth group. The boys do not wear uniforms. They are at some kind of summer camp. Te raising of a huge flag suggests a youth group despite the lack of uniforms. We are unable to identify the flag. A dealer suggests the portrait was taken in the 1930s. There are, however, a lot of long pats for the 1930s. The 1940s after the War seems more likely. Perhaps a reader will be able to offer some insight.

We have found quite a few images of German youth groups that we have not been able to identify. We will archive here photographs of some of the unidentified groups that we have found. Normally the Hitkler Youth and Scout uniforms are destinctiver enough thast they are fairly easy to identify. There were , however, until 1933va large numbers of different youth groups and we know virtuaslly nothing about the uniforms these groups wore. Hopefully our German readers will be able to identify some of them.

Figure 1: Young Crew

We note an unidetified German youth group in of all places China on the previous page. These boys are located at Tsingtao/Kiautschou. Germany like other European countries had control of a Chinese city. These cities were called treaty port and essentially administered like colonies. The group here ay have been a local unit without any larger organizational afiliation. This photograph was taken in 1913, 1 year before the outbreak of World War I. Japan joined Britain and launched an offensive which seized Tsingtao from a German and Austrian-Hungarian garison.

Figure 2: Wandrvogel

We have no information on this image except that it was German. It looks to us as if it was tken in the 1910s given the clothes thst the children are wearing. It may have been just a group of local youth. We suspect, however, that it may have been Wandervogel group. The Wandvogel was coeducational and was asociated with hikes and other activities in the countryside. There is no way to be sure, but it looks like the Wandervogel to us.

Figure 4: Unidentified Group

Here we see a group of teenages on an outing, we think in the early 1950s. They are waiting for a train at a station platform. e do not know where the snap shot was taken. We tink it might be East Germany, but are not sure. Some signs are visible. Perhaps our German readers will be abel to tell where tey are at. They do not wear elaborate uniforms. But two bys have the same jackets with a triangular sleeve insignis. We assume that identifies the group. We have, however, no idea what group this is.

Figure 5: Unidentified Group

Here we see a group in what looks like the 1930s. The snap shot is undated, but looks to have been taken in the mid-1930s. The group is not identified. The Hitler Youth Organization took over the German Youth movement (1933). Some groups were banned and their assetts and properties seized. . Others were merged into the Hitler Youth movement. Germany had a very large, diverse youth movement. After the HJ action, the organization became the principal youth group in Germany. It was not yet the only group. There were some exceptions to the grouups banned or incororated into the HJ. The principal one were the Catholic groups. Hitler to plscate the Catholics as he was consolidating his hold on Germany, allowed Catholic youth groups to operate independently for a few years. We are not sure what the group is here. It almost ceratainly is not a Hitler Youth unit because of the uniform. We think it may have been obnof these a Catholic group.

Figure 6: Unidentified Group

Here we see an unidentified group, at least we think it is a youth group. The boys do not wear uniforms. They are at some kind of summer camp. Te raising of a huge flag suggests a youth group despite the lack of uniforms. We are unable to identify the flag. A dealer suggests the portrait was taken in the 1930s. There are, however, a lot of long pats for the 1930s. The 1940s after the War seems more likely. Perhaps a reader will be able to offer some insight.