Girls' athletics and gymnastics at a Berlin school, 1937

Under tall pines a file of girls in white vests and dark shorts runs across a field; in a line on the grass they draw back their javelins and throw one after another, one close past the lens. Through a screen of pine trunks they run along a quiet street past white gabled houses, and on a sandy yard before a long school building they bend, squat and stretch in unison.

Hitler had written in Mein Kampf that the education of the young should begin with the body. Schools and the League of German Girls gave girls' sport a place it had never had before; running, jumping and throwing made up the tests for the League's sports badge.