League of German Girls on the march, 1937
Girls in white blouses and black neckerchiefs march singing behind a pennant along a country road, and young women stand in a long line on a field.
A column of girls in the uniform of the League of German Girls, white blouses, black neckerchiefs with leather knots and dark skirts, marches along a cobbled road between fields and telegraph poles with a pennant at its head, singing as it goes; fair-haired girls with plaits hurry past through a field. Then a long rank of young women in short-sleeved white blouses stands at attention on open ground, flags flying over a crowd in the distance.
Under Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach the girls' league grew into a mass organisation of millions. Hiking, singing and standing in rank were meant to form healthy, disciplined young women for the national community and, in time, for motherhood.
