Hitler Youth Uniforms: Headwear--Campaign Cap Usage

Figure 1.--Here three HJ boys wear the dark campaign caps, we think at camp. Note the unusual woggles. Also notice one boy has somekind of pin on the side of his cap.

We see examples in the photograsphic record of the boys wearing these caps. The great bulk of the photographs we have found, however, show the boys without their caps. This is unusual as the other major uniform items (shirt, scarfe, and black shorts) were almost always worn regardless of the activity. They do not seem to have worn them very commonly. We see countless images of the boys without their caps. We are not sure why that was. The caps had no practical value. There was not peak for shade on a sunny day. We are not sure if the boys did not like the caps are just could not be bothered with wearing them. Pehaps they were let off during activities. We asre not sure if there were any actual regulations about this. The photographic record shows very clearly that the boys very often did not wear their caps.