Hitler Youth achievement badge

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The Hitler Youth achievement badge in silver

The Hitler Youth Achievement Badge (founded in 1934) was an award for athletic performance and good training knowledge. It was supposed to promote the combative attitude of the male youth towards (war) duty.

"Every capable, forward-striving Hitler Youth and Hitler Youth leader must endeavor to achieve the Hitler Youth Achievement Badge - this high distinction of the Reich Youth Leader ." - Anyone wishing to acquire the Hitler Youth Achievement Badge had to “take special interest in the ideological training of the Hitler Youth have attended at least eight home evenings. For the members of the Marine Hitler Youth, there were nautical tasks in place of the terrain sports conditions. "(From the performance book of the German Young People and the Hitler Youth)

Hitler demanded his educational goals in a propagandistic way. In his speech on September 14, 1935 in front of 54,000 HJ boys, he demanded that they should become “ nimble as greyhounds, tough as leather, hard as Krupp steel ” : “Nothing is given in the life of nations; everything has to be fought for and conquered. [...] You have to learn to be tough, to accept hardship without ever collapsing. "

Execution of the badge

The HJ-performance badge was awarded in three stages: in E isen (15 years), in B Ronze (16 years) and in S Ilber (17 years and older). No high individual performances were required for this, "the conditions could be met by every Hitler Youth."

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Conditions for the badge

The following topics were planned for the training:

  1. Life of the leader
  2. Germanness abroad
  3. Assigned areas
  4. Holidays of the German people
  5. Five flag sayings
  6. Hitler Youth songs

The achievements in 20 areas necessary for the acquisition of the badge were divided into three groups:

  1. Exercise
  2. Target and march exercises
  3. Off-road sports

While the first group required classic athletic performance, the other two groups were geared towards a pre-military education and included small-caliber shooting , marching exercises (both in the second group) or mapping , reporting and camouflage (all in the third group).

Awards

After successfully passing the performance tests, the Reichssportführer was awarded the HJ performance badge. Between 1934 and 1937 a total of 55,277 HJ badges were awarded.

Today the mark of an unconstitutional organization

In the Federal Republic of Germany, using and wearing this badge is a criminal offense .

literature

  • Max Domarus : Hitler - Speeches and Proclamations 1932-1945 , ISBN 3927068004 , page ???
  • Keyword badge of achievement , in: Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism . 2nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 384.