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comrades "who have arisen out of the ranks of the IIJ and
the stru^clcs of national Socialism,"
At lease one weekly neeting of a HJ local.unit was
Civen over to lectures by trained political loaders. These
meeting, called Heinabende (campfire meotinGs), were
held in special Hitler Youth homes, the construction of
which was obligatory in communities of More than three
hundred inhabitants. In addition to attendlnG the
Heimabend, the Hitler Youth alao spent a week or two in
HJ camps. Schirach wrote that a camp provided the most
ideal form of life for youth. Even there indoctrinating
was part of the curriculum which included cymnastlcs,
tournaments, slnginc, and Ideological training
The playtime of the youngsters in the HJ was
filled with Glorification of militarism and stress on
• the superiority of the Germans and their "Mission" to
cenquer the rest of the world. Two sonCs from the IIJ
Liederbuch (published by the IIJ district leadership of
fiuhr-Niederrhein) £ive succinct evidence of „hat the
younc" German learned in the ranks of the IIJ:
T nnnTt Know the Way
m},fil,P are surely enough streets
in ?he red land of Prance, rich of crapes,
in her white mountains, the Alps,
in the black swamps and sand of Russia,
n ibid p. la!
24 op cit., p* 107
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