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Old 17th Sep 2012, 07:19
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BEagle
 
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If you had been born in the 1920's in Germany its odd's on you would have been a Nazi or at least in the Nazi youth.
Very probably - after 1936, HJ membership was compulsory for 'Aryan' children.....

When I was young, the babysitter who came to make sure we didn't burn the house down when our parents were out for the evening was a German ex-PoW who had stayed in England after the war. 'Rudi' was a very pleasant chap.

One night we were allowed to stay up to watch The Valiant Years and the programme featured the HJ. Poor old Rudi looked very uncomfortable and told us "It was not like the Boy Scouts, you had to join it!".

His telephone report from Dunkeswell to my father in Jan 1963 was memorable: "It iss schnowink like schtink!".....

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