Very impressive KevinS. These deserve a thread of their own, do you collect by maker as well or just grade?
Joe,
Thanks. Nothing more I'm afraid. There's a great book by Jill Stephenson called "The Nazi Organisation of Women" which goes into great detail about the bitter war between the Frauenschaft & the BDM over control of the "girls groups" (mainly between the ages 11 - 18, but younger as well). Girls groups had been formed from as early as the 1920's by the various NS related women's groups (inc the Deutscher Frauenorden) & it was strongly believed by the leaders of the NSF that "the girls belonged with the women" a direct challenge to the edict that "youth should be led by youth".
The NSF won an important victory in March 1935 when it was assigned sole responsibility for organising 6 - 10 year olds of both sexes in "childrens groups". Hitler himself decided that the NSF & not the Reichsjugendführung (Baldur von Schirach's office) should assume this task.
However, unfortunately no mention is made of any insignia or badges in this section of the book, or how the "childrens groups" were organised......
Cheers Don
"Much that once was, is lost, for none now live who remember it"
