Friday, August 22, 2008

A Different Sort of Scouting?

This is probably the strangest photo I've yet come across on the 'Net. It's a pic of a Hitler Youth "Jamboree", complete with the flags of different nations. The label runs,
29th July 1935: Members of the Hitler Youth under flags of the various delegations at the Hitler Youth Jamboree near Rheinsberg in Germany. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Under the Third Reich, Scouting was of course banned in Germany, and all Scouts were forced (or perhaps just forefully encouraged) to join the Hitler Youth.

And yet the Hitler Youth was in many ways clearly inspired by the Scout Movement - right down to their uniforms and, apparently, their "jamborees".

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