Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a German politician who served as head of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna.
Schirach as Reichsstatthalter, 1942
Schirach (far left) watches as Hitler greets his Chancellery chief Philipp Bouhler in Munich 1938.
Schirach (right) with Hitler, Bormann and Göring at the Obersalzberg
Schirach at the Nuremberg trials (in second row, second from right)
The Hitler Youth was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name Hitler-Jugend, Bund deutscher Arbeiterjugend in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth for younger boys aged 10 to 14.
Hitler Youth members give the Nazi salute at a rally at the Lustgarten in Berlin, 1933.
Members of the Hitler Youth chosen by the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy
Uniform from the 1930s
Hitlerjugend camp in China in 1935, with permission of the Government of the Republic of China
