HJ ban B

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For the Blind in 1934 became a " special spell " of the Hitler Youth approved, the HJ-B spell . The initiative for this came from Eduard Bechthold , the head of the Halle asylum for the blind and member of the NSDAP .

Bechtholt said in a speech in 1940:

“Our efforts are in concert with the HJ. of the ban B. has been crowned with success. We have created the new German type of blind boy and girl. Who this youth in the camps of the HJ. of the spell B. saw, felt it. "

During the first weeks of the Nazi regime, on February 28, 1933, a Hitler Youth group had been founded in the State Facility for the Blind in Berlin-Steglitz .

In December 1933, the wake-up call appeared at the Steglitz school for the blind , which was subtitled as "Bulletin for the Hitler Youth of all German institutions for the blind". The sheet was printed in braille , but had to be transferred in black for censorship reasons . In 1934 the wake-up call became the official organ of the Reich Youth Leadership for the Blind Hitler Youth (magazine for the National Socialist blind youth).

The blind were allowed to wear uniform, but had to replace the Hitler Youth armband with the blind band (three black circles on a yellow cloth). Blind people with severe physical ailments were allowed to wear the brown uniform, but were not allowed to show themselves in public. The blind “ feeble-minded ” were not accepted into the Hitler Youth.

In the summer of 1936, a 14-day summer camp was organized for the Hitler Youth Bann B in Thuringia.

literature

  • Ernst Klee: The Blind Spot How teachers, doctors and association officials delivered the "infirm" to mutilation and extermination . In: Die Zeit 50/1995
  • Sieglind Ellger-Rüttgardt: Blind people in the Third Reich . In: Wolfgang Drave / Hartmut Mehls (ed.): 200 years of education for the blind in Germany (1806–2006). Würzburg: edition bentheim 2006, pp. 161–171

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The Blind Spot How teachers, doctors and association officials delivered the 'frail' to mutilation and extermination. In: Die Zeit 50/1995.
  2. ^ A b c Sieglind Ellger-Rüttgardt: Blind people in the Third Reich . In: Wolfgang Drave / Hartmut Mehls (ed.): 200 years of education for the blind in Germany (1806–2006) . Würzburg: edition bentheim 2006, p. 166.
  3. ↑ E. Bechthold: The situation in the field of blindness . In: Journal for Children's Research: Organ of the Society for Curative Education and the German Association for Care for Young Psychopaths No. 49 (1943) 1, p. 73 (online resource)