What did former Hitler youth members do with their uniforms and knives after the war was over?
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What did former Hitler youth members do with their uniforms and knives after the war was over?
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About Eliza
I met a former Hitler Youth member in Perth about six years ago. I was driving back to work after visiting a supplier and noticed a body slumped on the sidewalk beside a busy road. Fearing he’d been hit by a car I quickly pulled up and parked on the sidewalk near him. As I approached him the smell of alcohol was quite strong. I gently shook his shoulder and he woke up a bit. I asked if he was alright and he was a little dazed but able to speak to me. He’d been on a bit of a bender the night before and in the morning had decided to spend the last of his money on more alcohol. He had 4 cans of the cheapest beer the bottle shop could sell him. On the way back his flat he’d fallen over and decided to have a sleep on the sidewalk. I offered him a lift home and was in the process of loading him into my car when he fell over again and bumped his head. There was a tiny bit of blood and I made the decision that he probably needed to spend a few hours in hospital. I called an Ambulance and waited with him until it arrived. While we were sitting by the side of the road I asked him about his tracksuit top which was from one of the local army barracks. He immediately declared that he’d never been in the Australian Army but that he had served in the Hitler Youth at the end of WW2. We chatted a bit about his experiences. I got the sense that life hadn’t been good for this man for a long time, possibly since the end of the war.
Eventually the Ambulance arrived and I introduced him to the two Ambulance Officers. I gave him back his plastic bag full of beer cans and went on my way.
The reason I tell this story is to try and explain that some people don’t recover from their wartime experiences. For some of them they are just permanently broken, for the rest of their lives.
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Not quite an answer, but still sort of relevant:
For decades I’ve been using my grandfather’s old fishing knife. It has a good blade, and is beautifully balanced, has cut snagged fishing lines and gutted many fish. But I’d always wondered what the small diamond-shaped recess in the hilt was for – obviously it had once held some sot of badge.
A few years ago I did some research and discovered it was assembled after the war from wartime stockpiles intended for Hitler Youth daggers. The blade was forged mid-war, but assembled for export after the war (stamped “Germany”) by the manufacturer, Henry Boker, in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The missing badge would likely have been a flier-de-lis, fitted to replace the originally intended swastika, or may even have been exported badgeless.
As I said, it’s a pretty good knife, and I would imagine many former HJ kept their knives sans swastika due to its utility value.
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A colleague at work had a grandfather who had been pressed into Wehrmacht service at ‘about’ 16 in early 1945. The US Army blew right by his home town – not even bothering to stop. When Germany surrendered, he walked home, cleaned his gear, and packed it away. Nobody seemed to care. His grandkids inherited an amazing trunk of souvenirs when he passed away.
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I dont’ know about Hitler youth, but a guy I worked with married a German girl. Actaully she was Canadian but her family was from Germany. The girls name was Hilde. He had a sister name Ilsa, or something. Pretty typical. My friend never thought too much about it. He liked their family and even went to Germany with them on vacation to visit relatives. One they they let him in on a family secret. They showed him grandfather’s SS uniform they still had in a closet. I guess they kept it as a momento.
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This was long before my time.
My aunt. long deceased, was a member of Hitler Youth. I don’t know that she ever had any knives, but the shirt of her uniform was given to my mother, who was much younger than she was. After the war, the embroidery was removed and, well, she wore it to school. Under a sweater, she told me.
Sounds tacky, but these were people who had lived with rationing, not only of food, but also of clothing, for a decade. No sense in throwing out a perfectly good shirt, right?
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Our neighbor married an ex HY after the War and brought her back to the USA. We are of Polish descent. She hated us. Used to call us dank pole or dumb pole. Used to toss her dog’s poop over the fence into our yard. Her son set our garage on fire. A really nasty person. That was my personal experience with Nazi Germany.
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Some destroyed them and others hid them; My brother is a amature WW2 Historian and he knows a couple of militaria dealers; who go to Germany for a few weeks every few months and in up shipping back the USA all sorts of interesting items from WW2 that people want to get rid of now that Grandpa is gone. My Brother has a authenticated Youth knife, as well as a Nazi banner of the type that would hang off the town hall in some Village; He also has some neat Russian and British Memorabilia as well as US.
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Just guessing; they probably didn’t wear them much anymore. Probably went to the back of the closet and was used for rag purposes.
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