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Bund Deutscher Mädel
The League of German Girls or the Band of German Maidens (, abbreviated as BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. It was the only legal female youth organization in Nazi Germany. At first, the League consisted of two sections: the '' Jungmädelbund'' ("Young Girls' League") for girls aged 10 to 14, and the League proper for girls aged 14 to 18. In 1938, a third section was introduced, the ''BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit'' ("Faith and Beauty Society"), which was voluntary and open to girls between the ages of 17 and 21. Due to the compulsory membership of all young women, except for those excluded for racial reasons, the League became the largest female youth organization at the time with over 4.5 million members. With the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, the organization ''de facto'' ceased to exist. On 10 October 1945, it was outlawed by the Allied Control Council along with other Nazi Party organizations. Under Section 86 of the Ger ...
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Youth Organization
The following is a list of youth organizations. A youth organization is a type of organization with a focus upon providing activities and socialization for Minor (law), minors. In this list, most organizations are international unless noted otherwise. 0–9 * 4-H (Worldwide) A * AEGEE (Europe) * AIESEC * Air Training Corps (UK) * A.J.E.F (LatAm) * All India Youth Federation - AIYF (India) * Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (India) * Aleph Zadik Aleph * American Youth Congress (US) * American Youth Hostels (US) * Amigos de las Americas * Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam (Pakistan) * Armenian National Students Association * Armenian Youth Federation * Army Cadet Force (UK) * Arran (organization), Arran (CAT) * Arsalyn Program (US) * Article 12 (England) * Ateitis (Lithuania) * All Assam Students Union (Assam, India) * All India Muslim Students Federation (India) * All-Polish Youth (Poland) * Associazione Guide e Scout Cattolici Italiani (IT) B * Bangladesh-China Youth Stud ...
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Gleichschaltung
The Nazi term (), meaning "synchronization" or "coordination", was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, Germany—established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society "from the Economy of Nazi Germany, economy and German Labour Front, trade associations to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, media, Reich Chamber of Culture, culture and Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture, education". Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect throughout Government of Nazi Germany, Hitler's dictatorship, near total Nazification was achieved by 1935 with the resolutions approved during that year's Nuremberg Rally, fusing the symbols of the party and the state (see Flag of Nazi Germany) and depriving German Jews of their citizenship (see Nuremberg Laws). The tenets of ''Gleichschaltung'', including the Nuremberg Laws, also applied to German-o ...
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Traditions-Arm-Dreieck
The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany (although the League of German Girls was a wing of it) and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth ( or "DJ", also "DJV") for younger boys aged 10 to 14. With the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, the organisation '' de facto'' ceased to exist. On 10 October 1945, the Hitler Youth and its subordinate units were outlawed by the Allied Control Council along with other Nazi Party organisations. Under Section 86 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hitler Youth is an "unconstitutional organisation" and the distribution or public use of its sy ...
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Reichsarbeitsdienst
The Reich Labour Service (''Reichsarbeitsdienst''; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the Economy of Nazi Germany, German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazism, Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women. From June 1935 onward, men aged between 18 and 25 may have served six months before their military service. During World War II, compulsory service also included young women, and the RAD developed to an Auxiliaries, auxiliary Military organization#Formation, formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces. Foundation In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by Article 48 (Weimar Constitution), emergency decree established the ''Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst'' ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD), on 5 Jun ...
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BDM Werk Glaube Und Schönheit
The BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (German for BDM Faith and Beauty Society) was founded in 1938 to serve as a tie-in between the work of the League of German Girls (BDM) and that of the National Socialist Women's League. Membership was voluntary and open to girls aged 17 to 21. Purpose Nazi Germany's Reichsjugendführer (RJF; "National Youth Leader") Baldur von Schirach established the Faith and Beauty Society in 1938 to act as a link between the ''Bund Deutscher Mädel'' (BDM) and the ''Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft''. The general idea was that "girls" should take part in working for the whole ''Volksgemeinschaft'' (German community) before they either went on to jobs orideallyto marry and have children. The Society, initially run by , mainly aimed towards priming the young women for their future tasks as wives and mothers, and while courses offered ranged from fashion design to healthy living, the overall idea was to teach them home economics Home economics, also ...
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Bundesarchiv Bild 137-040965, China, Tientsin, HJ Und BDM Vereidigung
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (, lit. "Federal Archive") are the national archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the y ...
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Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League (''Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft or NSF),'' a position she was appointed to by Adolf Hitler in 1934. She headed numerous other Party and government organizations for women and was the highest ranking female official in Nazi Germany. She was known in Britain as the “the perfect Nazi Woman”. Following the end of the Second World War, she underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged a "major offender". A non-repentant Nazi, she lived another half-century and published a book in which she professed her continued belief in Nazi ideology. Early life, marriages and family Gertrud Emma Treusch was born into a middle class family in Adelsheim where her father was the local district surveyor. When she was 2, the family moved to ...
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NS-Frauenschaft
The National Socialist Women's League (, abbreviated ''NS-Frauenschaft'') was the women's wing of the Nazi Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and Nazi women's associations, such as the German Women's Order (, DFO) which had been founded in 1926. From then on, women were subordinate to the NSDAP Reich leadership. Guida Diehl was its first speaker (''Kulturreferentin''). The ''Frauenschaft'' was subordinated to the national party leadership (''Reichsleitung''); girls and young women were the purview of the League of German Girls (''Bund Deutscher Mädel'', BDM). From February 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, the ''NS-Frauenschaft'' was led by Reich's Women's Leader (''Reichsfrauenführerin'') Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999). It put out a biweekly magazine, the '' NS-Frauen-Warte''. Its activities included instruction in the use of German-manufactured products, such as butter and rayon, in place of imported ones, as part of the ...
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Artur Axmann
Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 – 24 October 1996) was the Germans, German Nazi national leader (''Reichsjugendführer'') of the Hitler Youth (''Hitlerjugend'') from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to ''Reichsleiter''. Early life and career Axmann was born in Hagen, Province of Westphalia, Westphalia, the son of an insurance clerk. In 1916, his family moved to Berlin-Wedding (Berlin), Wedding, where his father died two years later. The young Axmann was a good student and received a scholarship to attend secondary school. He joined the Hitler Youth in November 1928 after he had heard Nazi ''Gauleiter'' Joseph Goebbels speak. Axmann became leader of the local cell in the Wedding district. Nazi career In September 1931, Axmann joined the Nazi Party and the next year he was called to the NSDAP ''Reichsjugendführung'' to carry out a reorganisation of Hitler Youth factory and vocational school cells. After the Nazi seizure of ...
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