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Hitler Youth: Ages
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The girls had a similar agenda to follow in the Hitler Youth. They first participated in the Jungmadel from ages ten to fourteen and then they were required to join the Association of German Girls, or BDM. In 1932 this group was made the only party for girls (Heyes 23). Girls had a much different role in the youth programs. Girls did participate in the same kind of physical workouts as the boys, emphasizing strongly on competitiveness, but they were taught how to be strong mothers and obedient wives. The most important issue that was stressed to the girls of BDM was to produce flawless children for the Fatherland (Heyes 57).
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Boys at 10, joined the Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People) until the age of 13 when they transferred to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) until the age of 18. In 1936, the writer J R Tunus wrote about the activities of the Hitler Jugend. He stated that part of their "military athletics" (Wehrsport) included marching, bayonet drill, grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, gas defence, use of dugouts, how to get under barbed wire and pistol shooting.
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The Preliminary Training Camp was another program of Hitler Youth. The directors of the camp often were wounded army officers and SS veterans that had prior experience in the Hitler Youth. Boys aged sixteen to eighteen were required to attend a twenty-one day concentrated training. This program was Hitlerís idea of psychological training for military combat. In some ways the training could compare to basic training, it was even more brutal than camps for older boys that were drafted. The main goals were to acquire combat readiness and combat capacity.
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The Pack Company made a unique Hitler Youth knife, which is much different from other producers. In fact, it resembles a bayonet more than it does a Youth knife. This example shows some overall age discoloration, but it is all there, and is a very rarely seen variation. The hilt area is of steel base construction. The pommel is slightly different from other Youth knives, in that the eagle head beak is much more prominent, just like a bayonet would be. The lower quillon crossguard is the same as normally seen.
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