YOUTH OF GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 10

YOUTH OF GERMANY

MILITARY TRAINING

(Feom Otra Own Cobbespondewt.) LONDON, January 19; >,The "Genealogical Chart'' of the Hitler youth organisation, has been officially issued. A.-writer in the Daily Telegrapa points out that Lord Baden-Powell: eipfressed no regrets when he was informed I last summer about, the suppression by th« Nazis of the Joy Scout movement in GerW many* "-~He then remarked: " They wer« military. We .are just BbyVScouts, nc»; thing more." ;The chart bristle* with. 'military terms and* military ranks, and admirably, de*. monstrates the -absorption fit German' "youth by the .Nazi: body'jolitie. Head of the organisation Vis, of course, Adolf Hitler. His representative and plenipotentiary is Herr Baldurivon Schiracb. '• Among the subjects which come under i&e jurisdiction of the various detachment commanders and to which the bOyi and youths must apply themselves are :\ Propaganda, the press, .colonial' work, preparatory- aviation school,; aerial proficiency, glider flying, the essence ol motoring and .of ; riding, '.training," organisation, equipment, legal subjects, and' youths' cells (Hitlerite :tradt; unionism). < Incorporated in the youths' societies is the 'Defence "or "Armed Qroup." Vl* be recalled in this that? in a speech at Munich on ! July, 3, 1833*; Herr von Tschammer und Osten, the, Reich Commissioner of Sport, said that ''in three years we wall nave created*; younger generation "which will be' both eager to and capable of /bearing arms," and ihat "the training of the younger, generation in armed eporta must be so. pushed'forward .that within four years every village in Germany will-have-it* . email-calibre rifle range, and, that even the lowest class of the elementary school will be holding target practice."