Hitler Youth Summer Camps: Food

Figure 1.--Here we see a field kitchen at a HJ camp. We are not sure if the boys at the kleft are involved wih the kitchen. Not do we know where are when the photograoh was taken. We would guess the late 1930s.

We have no idea at this time what the food was like at Hitler Youth summer camps. A American Scout camps part of the program was learning to cook camp meals over camp fires. I'm not sure if the HJ program put the same emphasis on this. Perhaps the HJ wanted the boys more involved in formal asects of the program than cooking which may have been seen as more women's work. We note army-style field kitches being set up at HJ camps. I've never noted anuthing quite like thiseven at major U.S. Scout functions like jamborees with thousands of Scouts.I have no ideas just what kind of food was produced in these kitchens. I suspect these field kitchens were similar to army rathions, but this is just a guess. Perhaps HBU readers will know more about this and be able to offer some insights.