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Hitler Youth Summer Camp Badge
Gebiet 27 Vienna -
1943
Hitler Jugend Gebiet Wein (27) Sommerlager 1943: By 1943 all HJ camps became military training camps for front line combat duty. The best young boys graduated to form the new 12th SS Panzer Division. Many of the instructors at these Summer Camps were SS veterans and former HJ members. Feinzink, 26 x 52 mm, soldered steel pin on tombac plate, one of the last HJ tinnies made, very rare, light wear.
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By 1943, Nazi leaders began turning the Hitler Youth into a military reserve to replace manpower which had been depleted due to tremendous military losses. In 1943, the 12th SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend, under the command of SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Witt, was formed. The Division was a fully equipped Waffen-SS panzer division, with the majority of the enlisted cadre being drawn from Hitler Youth boys between the ages of 16 and 18. The division was deployed during the Battle of Normandy against the British and Canadian forces to the north of Caen. During the following months, the division earned itself a reputation for ferocity and fanaticism. When Witt was killed by allied naval gunfire, SS-Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer took over command and became the youngest divisional commander at age 33.
Members of a Hitlerjugend company of the Volkssturm at the German-Soviet front in Pyritz, Pomerania, February 1945.
As German casualties escalated with the combination of Operation Bagration and the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation in the east, and Operation Cobra in the west, members of the Hitlerjugend were recruited at ever younger ages. By 1945, the Volkssturm was commonly drafting 12-year-old Hitler Youth members into its ranks. During the Battle of Berlin, Axmann's Hitler Youth formed a major part of the last line of German defense, and were reportedly among the fiercest fighters. Although the city commander, General Helmuth Weidling, ordered Axmann to disband the Hitler Youth combat formations, in the confusion this order was never carried out. The remnants of the youth brigade took heavy casualties from the advancing Russian forces; only two survived. (Wikipedia) Below are the training camps for HJ Gebiet 27:
HJ-Gebiet 27 (Wien) - WEL - Gross Hollenstein
HJ-Gebiet 27 (Wien) - WEL - Raab an der Thaya
HJ-Gebiet 27 (Wien) - WEL III - Ritzmannshof bei Zwettl
HJ-Gebiet 27 (Wien) -
Reichsstreifendienstlehrgang (SRD)
SS Kraftfahrerschule Schönbrunn