Hitler Youth educational filmstrip with lidded canister about the German Armed Forces

Object | Accession Number: 2007.502.1.13 a-c

Overview

Brief Narrative: Propaganda filmstrip shown to Hitler Youth groups to inspire loyaly to the Armed Forces and devotion to the continued expansion of the Third Reich. 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.
Artwork Title: Unsere Wehrmacht Teil. I: Das Heer W 14 [Our Armed Forces, Part I]
Series Title: Bildband fur die Schulung in der HJ [Filmstrip for Training in the HJ.]
Date: creation: approximately 1936-approximately 1940
Geography: creation: Berlin (Germany)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Susan Gitlin
Contributor: Producer: Reichsjugendfuhrung Presse- und Propagandaamt

Physical Details

Language: German
Classification: Audiovisual and Photographic Materials
Category: Audio-visual materials
Object Type: Filmstrips (lcsh)
Genre/Form: Handbooks and manuals.
Physical Description: a. Rolled 35mm filmstrip.
b. Short, gray textured paper covered cardboard container tube with an open top. The sides curve under at the bottom edge to secure a white round cardboard insert; the sides have some brown stains. The interior has a light brown cardboard sleeve with semi-circular openings on either side.
c. Small, circular gray textured paper covered cardboard lid with a slightly recessed top. The Hitler Youth emblem, a black swastika within a red and white diamond, with German text around the border are printed in black ink on the top. A rectangular white paper label with the title in German fraktur printed in black ink and illegible text in pencil is adhered to the side. The top is partially detached from the edge; the sides have some brown stains.
Dimensions: a: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Diameter: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)
b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
c: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
Materials: a : cellulose acetate, emulsion
b : cardboard, paper
c : cardboard, paper, adhesive, ink
Inscription: c. top, around edge, black ink : Bildband für die Schulung in der HJ. [Filmstrip for Training in the HJ.]
c. side, on label, black ink : Unsere Wehrmacht, (bold) Teil I W 14 [Our Armed Forces, Part I W 14]
c. side, on label, superimposed on end of title, pencil : H[illegible]

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Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Fascism--Youth--Germany--History--20th century. Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works. National socialism and youth. Youth movements--Germany--History--20th century.
Corporate Name: Hitler Youth

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The filmstrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Susan Gitlin.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

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Date: 1936-1940

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