> When I was in > the BSA, I was told that one of the first things Hitler did was to > suppress the Boy Scouts. But some reading I've done since suggests > that the BSA was merged with the Hitler Youth with no transition > problems. > > Jim Devine
That's about right. He just nationalized the leading Wandervogel groups into the Hitler Youth. Instead of religious teaching of any sort, they had military practice and they were the entrance requirement for the state apprenticeship schools in the trades. I know that from a carpenter I worked with from Germany who went through German apprenticeship school. He barely skated out of the military at the end of the war at fourteen or fifteen, finished under the Russians, and immigrated to the west. This guy was funny and cynical and naive and sophisticated in a weird mix I've rarely seen... CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
