Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Hitler Youth proficiency badge that would have been awarded for the successful completion of a series of tests measuring physical and ideological proficiency, rated according to the Leistungsbuch [identity document and performance book]. The tyr-rune [arrow shape] represents the warrior god Tyr. The Hitler Youth was founded by the Nazi Party in 1926 to shape the beliefs and actions of German youth to conform to national socialist ideology. After Hitler's selection as Chancellor in 1933, this became the national ideology, and loyalty to the Nazi Party and its leaders was a central teaching. The Hitler Youth was a pathway for service in the armed forces or, later, in the SS. In 1936, membership in Nazi youth groups became mandatory for all boys and girls between the ages of ten and seventeen.
- Date
-
issue:
approximately 1940
- Geography
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issue:
Germany
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cayla D. Houston
- Markings
- front, embossed : FÜR LEISTUNGEN IN DER JH [For Service in the Hitler Youth]
back, within circle : RZ / M
back, around ring, stamped : M 1/63 [Steinhauer & Luck, Ludenschied]
back of arrow, stamped : 124857
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Jewelry
- Category
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Pins (Jewelry)
- Object Type
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Lapel pins (aat)
- Physical Description
- Silver colored metal pin formed from a tyr rune with a circular badge on the shaft. The circle has an outside ring of text, with a swastika on the inside. On the back is a spring tension pin with a maker's mark on the ring and marking on the point of the arrow. It is worn with the arrow pointing up.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Nazi propaganda--Germany.
- Corporate Name
- Hitler Youth Nazi Party
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The pin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Cayla DuChene Houston.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-31 10:43:59
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518279
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The collection consists of artifacts related to the history of the Nazi party in Germany during the Third Reich.
Date: approximately 1940
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Object
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Nazi Party Women's Order of the Red Swastika lapel pin
Object
National Sozialistische Frauenschaft [National Socialist Womenhood] triangular membership pin. The letters on the pin, GHL, stand for the organization’s motto "Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe" (Faith, Hope, Love). The NSF was formed in 1931 and in 1935, it became an official party organ of the Nazi Party [NSDAP].
