YEARBOOK OF THE HITLER YOUTH, 1939 [Page 226]
Every Hitler youth a marksman.
Shooting practice in the Hitler Youth. .
[Page 227]
Stellrecht: "To handle a rifle should be just as natural for everybody as to handle a pen."
"In order that every group should have training armament, the Wehrmacht presented to the Hitler Jugend in 1937, 10,000 KK rifles."
There is no shortage of shooting ranges. Since the beginning of organized shooting practice in autumn 1936, 10,000 shooting ranges have acquired the green shooting certificate during weekend and special practice and every year this figure increases by some thousands.
Extracts from a Hitler Youth yearbook, on training in marksmanship and practice with military rifles
Authors
Date: 1939
Literal Title: Yearbook of the Hitler Youth, 1939
Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3769
Citation: IMT (page 10345)
HLSL Item No.: 453110
Trial Issues
Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-3769: Extract from an article, 1939, on rifle practice in the Hitler youth