Figure 1.--Jugenderholungspflege means Youth Recretion Care. It was an NSV program to get at risk undeprivlidged city kids out into the countryside during school vacations where they got good food and plenty of fresh air and sunshine. The image here looks like village children encountering new Wehrmacht draftees. But we know these were Jugenderholungspflege boys because this was one of a seris of cards published by the Nationalsozialistiche Volkswohlfahrt. It was No. 17 Jugenderholungspflege. Given the fact that the soldits look to be draftees and the way the boys are dressed, we would guess the photograph , 1934-44. No. 17 in: NSV-Jugenderholungspflege [City children's visits in the country, Germany].

Jugenderholungspflege means Youth Recretion Care. It was an NSV program to get at risk undeprovlidged city kids out into the countryside during school vacations where they got good food and plenty of fresh air and sunshine. We are not sure if this was part of the NSV Hilfsfwerk (Relief) effort or a different section of the NSV. This was not a progran initiated by the NAZIs, but a Weimar program taken over by the NSV as they gained comntrol of welfare prograns and fund raising. We do not yet have much information about the orogram and the number of children involved. We notice large numbers of German in various kinds of group homes. We see these images before, during, and after the NAZI era. Some of them may be associated with the Jugenderholungspflege program. We think there were other programs that also operated group homes for both boys and girls. Most of these would have been operated by the NSV during the NAZI era, but we still have very limited information..

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