Large Lot 1934–1941 Third Reich German Jugend Girls Boys Hitler Youth Magazines HJ BDM Landvolk

Interesting original Third Reich Era Nazi German Hitler youth BDM and indoctrination al periodical collection, dating from approximately 1934 through 1941. This is a varied group containing numerous issues/pages with period illustrations, cartoons, photographs, educational material, rural-life articles, music, crafts, children’s stories and National Socialist-era youth material.

A major portion consists of Junges Landvolk – Ausgabe B für Mädchen, subtitled “Zeitschrift für ländliche Berufsschulen” (Magazine for Rural Vocational Schools). The photographed examples include issues from 1939 and 1941, including:

June 1939 – Heft 3
September 1939 – Heft 6
November 1939 – Heft 8
December 1939 – Heft 9
January 1941 – Heft 10
February 1941 – Heft 11

These were specifically the “Ausgabe B für Mädchen” — Edition B for Girls and contain material aimed at German girls and young women in rural vocational education.

Also included are several colorful period Hitler youth publications/pages associated with Der kleine Genossenschafter / Genossenschaftsfamilie and Die Stunde der Jugend. Periodical research identifies Der kleine Genossenschafter as a children’s supplement to Genossenschaftsfamilie, with comics, adventures and illustrated covers; during the Third Reich period it also carried reports concerning HJ organizations and youth activities. Die Stunde der Jugend was published alongside it from 1935–1939.

Visible dated material includes Mitte Oktober 1934, Ende April 1937, Hamburg 1938, 1939, and 1941, giving the collection a good chronological spread across the prewar and early WWII period.

Particularly Interesting Content

The lot contains a substantial variety of period material, including:

• Hitlerjugend / HJ and German youth imagery
• BDM-era girls and young women’s material
• HJ uniforms, flags and youth activities
• A dramatic “Sommersonnenwende” (Summer Solstice) illustration showing uniformed youth gathered around a fire
• “2. Kriegswinterhilfswerk 1940/41” material
• A section headed “Der Führer”
• Rural education and agricultural material
• Girls’ domestic instruction, sewing and handicrafts
• Period photographs of German children and youth activities
• Sports and outdoor activities
• Shooting/rifle imagery
• Music and sheet music
• Decorative lettering and alphabet instruction
• Numerous cartoons and comic strips
• Full-page black-and-white illustrations
• Attractive full-color illustrated pages and covers
• Der kleine Genossenschafter material with children’s stories, cartoons and photographs

The HJ-related material is historically consistent with the increasingly organized educational, physical-training and ideological programs directed toward German youth during this period. Contemporary historical research describes standardized HJ training publications and programs covering physical training, occupational competition and ideological instruction.

One of the especially attractive pieces is the 1934 Der kleine Genossenschafter color cover showing children flying a kite. Other colorful material includes whimsical insects, woodland scenes, children’s cartoons, illustrated rural scenes and a mother and daughter engaged in needlework.

Condition: This is a well-used archival collection showing substantial age and handling. Expect edge wear, tears, splits, folds, creasing, toning, staining, writing, detached or separated pages, rough edges and other wear. Some pieces appear to have originally been folded or assembled as supplements. Please study all photographs carefully. Everything shown is included and sold as found.

A particularly interesting group for collectors and researchers of Third Reich youth history, Hitlerjugend, BDM, German home-front material, WWII ephemera, German children’s publications, rural education, propaganda, illustrated periodicals and 1930s–1940s social history.

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