Hitler Youth instructional filmstrip with canister on reclaiming region in Poland
Extent and Medium
b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Diameter: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
c: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Diameter: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
Creator(s)
- Reichsjugendfuhrung Presse- und Propagandaamt (Producer)
Archival History
The filmstrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Stephen Glick.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stephen Glick
Scope and Content
Filmstrip titled Grenzland Oberschlesien [Borderland Upper Silesia] with 39 images produced to educate Hitler Youth group members that the presence of people of German ethnicity in this region of Poland meant that the region rightly belonged to Germany. The Propaganda Office of the Reich Youth Leadership produced a series of 35mm filmstrips in the late 1930s, Bildband fur die Schulung in der HJ [Filmstrip for Training in the Hitler Youth]. The filmstrips were distributed to local Hitler Youth chapters to show at gatherings and to use as propaganda to recruit members and disseminate the teachings of the Nazi Party. On December 1, 1936, the Reich Youth Leadership, under Baldur von Schirach, became an autonomous organization accountable only to Hitler. Membership in the Hitler Youth became mandatory on March 25, 1939.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
a. Rolled 35mm filmstrip with 39 black and white transparencies. b. Short, gray cardboard tube open at the top with a brown cardboard sleeve inside. The sides curve under at the bottom edge to secure a white round bottom cardboard insert. A white paper label with preprinted text is taped to the side. c. Circular gray cardboard lid with the Hitler Youth emblem, a swastika within a red and white diamond, and German text around the edge printed on the top.
b. on white label, black ink : Grenzland Oberschlesien [Borderland Upper Silesia] c. exterior top, around border, black ink : Bildband für die Schulung in der HJ. [Filmstrip for Training in the Hitler Youth]
Subjects
- Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works.
- Fascism--Youth--Germany--History--20th century.
- National socialism and youth.
- Youth movements--Germany--History--20th century.
- Hitler-Jugend--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre
- Object
- Audiovisual and Photographic Materials