Hitler Youth Activities: Age Groups

Figure 1.--These DJ boys are seen forming up at a Hitler Youth camp during 1934, early in the NAZI era. They look to be about 10-11 years if age. Notice the flags with the single lighting bolt--the symbol of the HJ.

We do not yet know a great deal about how the HJ summer camps were organized concerning age groups. I am not sure just what age groups went to summer camps. Presumably boys 10 years and older as this was the asge that they joined the Deutche Jugend (DJ). Available images show both the youher DJ and older HJ boys at the summer camps. Generally speaking, summer camps in the Scouts movement was just for the older Boy Scout section. Cubs did not normally go to camp. The Hitler Youth was different. The younger DJ did boys who were about 10-13 years of age did go to camp, although the DJ included older boys than were normally in Cubbing. I do not know if the younger boys went for shorter periods or to what extent age groups were separated. We do not that the older boys served as youth leaders at the camps.