League of German Girls: a goat, a garden and bread, 1937
Girls with badges on their sleeves milk a goat, meet at a garden fence and cut bread for two small children on a doorstep.
Before a plastered cottage girls in light work dresses hold a white goat while one crouches to milk it, the badge of the League of German Girls sewn on her sleeve; in a garden under a birch they tend the vegetable beds and shake hands at the fence; on a doorstep among flowers a blonde girl cuts a thick slice from a round loaf for a small boy and girl. Women of the neighbourhood talk at another garden gate.
Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach wanted the girls' league to produce healthy, practical future mothers. From 1934 the Hitler Youth's Landdienst sent town girls to farms and settlers' households, and the image of the fair-haired girl caring for children was the one the league's own photographers liked best.
