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Special Units of the Hitlerjugend

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Post by David Thompson » 06 Oct 2004, 02:01

From "Document 2654-PS: Organization And Insignia Of The Hitler Youth [Aufbau und Abzeichen der Hitlerjugend]: VII. Special Hitler Youth Units [partial translation]", in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. Volume V: US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia: 1946.
pp. 361-364.
[Edited by the Reich Youth Headquarters of the NSDAP Printed: German Central Print Shop, Inc., Berlin SW 11. Pages 56-60.]

1. Organization of the special units.

a. Naval Hitler Youth. The boys who later want to join the merchant marine or the navy, already have in the naval Hitler Youth the opportunity to prepare for their future occupation. There they are introduced to seamanlike thoughts, feelings, and actions. This training, by its ideological and physical education, is to make the boys into strong characters, who have grown to the hard sailor's life with its mental, political, and physical endurance tests. Semaphores, morse code, sailing, rowing, knots and splices are things which the boys practice besides their physical training.

The replacements for leaders are trained at two special seaport schools in Prieros-Mark and in Seemos on Lake Constance. Purely externally, the members of the Naval Hitler Youth can be recognized by their blue naval Hitler Youth service uniform, which is designed according to their tasks. The unit, to which the boys belong, can be seen from the hat band, which for instance carries the designation: "MHJ Hamburg." As field uniforms, they wear the HJ summer service uniform with gold-yellow recognition colors on the cap and shoulder straps.

As recognition for his performance, the naval Hitler boy can be awarded the sea sport medal of the HJ, for the award of which the naval Hitler boy must prove the technical knowledge, gained in the MHJ.

b. Motorized Hitler Youth. The motor technical replacement is trained in the motor HJ from the ranks of the HJ. According to agreement between the Reich youth leader and the corps leader of the NSKK, the motor corps makes available its instructors, shops, lecture halls, vehicles, and training areas for the training of the motor HJ. Further, the motor corps accepts its entire replacements only from the ranks of the motor HJ.

In the motor HJ also, the Hitler boys have physical education besides the technical training, however special emphasis is laid on technical perfection. Thus, the members of the motor HJ must in the fulfillment of the HJ performance insignia, in addition fulfill the "special performance tests of the motor HJ," and must in it prove their knowledge of motors, knowledge of laws, traffic and driving system, technical knowledge of the engine, etc. The highpoint of the work is the annual Reich meeting of the motor HJ. Furthermore, the motor HJ participates in or itself institutes contests and journeys.

c. Flying HJ. All Hitler boys are organized in this special unit, who later want to join civil or military aviation. The training is carried out in the closest cooperation with the NSFK, which makes instructors, machines, tools, and shops available. At first, the boys learn to build models, and then are gradually introduced to glider aviation. The boy becomes acquainted with the problems of flying by the construction of models and gains knowledge about the physical law of flying. Already in the model construction work groups of the Jungvolk, the junior Hitler Youth [Pimpf] themselves build and work on their own models. The Flieger HJ has an aviator's blue winter service uniform.

d. Signal HJ. In the signal platoons, the Hitler boys are trained for communication work, and they are widely prepared for future missions. In all training branches of signal work, Morse code receives the most attention of all. The aim of this training is not to make perfect
telegraphers, but to give the boys quite early the necessary basic knowledge for service with signal troops. Besides morse code, the members of the signal units received training in the signal maintenance service. It is understood that the signal platoons of the HJ also have to fulfill their own missions during the field problems and bivouacs of the HJ. They must prepare and execute rapidly in the field the assembly and disassembly of telephone and blinker communications. In large encampments of the HJ they have to install and operate telephone, loudspeaker, light, and searchlight installations.

e. Entertainment units [Spieleinheiten]. The entertainment units of the HJ are special organizations, who are charged with the entire cultural work in the HJ. They have to take care of the arrangement of festive hours, home evenings, band concerts, radio broadcasts, motion picture festivals and literary evenings, and who are also charged with the training of replacements for the bands of the armed forces, the Reich labor service, the party organizations, for professional orchestras and choirs.

In the first line, they are charged with the cultural work in regiments and/or the subdistricts. Each regiment and each subdistrict therefore has an entertainment unit which includes the band, drum and fife corps and bugle corps, string orchestra, choir, amateur actors, etc.

The best regimental entertainment unit within a territory annually is declared the territorial entertainment unit [Gebietsspielschar]. To give other units of the regiment the benefit of the work of the entertainment units to the greatest possible extent, members of entertainment units should be transferred back to their original units, so that they can make use of their knowledge, gained there.

The leaders, male or female, of the cultural agency of the regiment-subdistrict are responsible for the entire entertainment unit, most of all, they have to provide for sufficient replacements. The entertainment unit has an active unit commander, who is assisted in the individual groups by special assistants as non-commissioned officers.

For the safeguarding of youth work by the German Reich broadcasting station, there are the radio entertainment platoons of the HJ [Rundfunkspielscharen]. These are composed of HJ, DJ, BDM, and JI, and are directly subordinated to the Reich youth headquarters. Commander of the radio entertainment platoon is the respective competent youth radio leader at the Reich broadcasting station.

f. HJ Military Police [Streifendienst]. The HJ military police supervises the appearance of the entire German youth organized in the HJ according to the law of 12/1/1936, in respect to general discipline, service uniform, visits to public places, etc., further, they are charged with the control of the HJ homes in respect to cleanliness and order, supervision of youth hiking and youth hostels, order and guard duty during mass meetings, guard in bivouacs, convoying of transports, search for missing persons, investigations and inquiries in case of service violations and punishable acts. Also included in its sphere of duties are advice and help for hiking youth, railroad station service, protection of youth from criminal elements, combat against juvenile delinquency, protection of public property from damages by HJ hiking groups, etc.

The HJ military police enforces its measures by its superior authority given to it by the youth leader of the German Reich. Accordingly, every juvenile, belonging to the HJ, according to the law of 12/1/1936, has to obey the orders of the military police.

HJ Streifendienst

Every military police member wears on the left lower arm a black ribbon with the yellow inscription "HJ Streifendienst" and has in his possession a special military police identification card.

Based on an agreement between the Reichsfuehrer SS and the Chief of the German Police, and the youth leader of the German Reich and the Reich youth leader of the NSDAP, the HJ military police has been selected as the replacement unit for units of the SS. The transfer into the HJ military police depends on an examination for acceptance, in which the competent SS doctors will participate.

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Post by waffen » 09 Oct 2004, 02:25

:D thanks for the link david from the declassified archives...


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Re: Special Units of the Hitlerjugend

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Post by tigre » 20 Aug 2020, 02:57

Hello to all :D; a complement.................................

Sonderformationen des HJ.

Source: http://museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/nsd ... rettyPhoto

Cheers. Raúl M 8-).
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Post by tigre » 22 Nov 2020, 01:24

Hello to all :D; more...............................

Sonderformationen des HJ.

Source: http://museenkoeln.de/ausstellungen/nsd ... rettyPhoto

Cheers. Raúl M 8-).
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