Songs, diaries and a picnic by the roadside, 1937
Resting on a grassy bank, girls of the League of German Girls perform a comic song, write diaries, eat their sandwiches, read a magazine and doze.
Some forty girls lie and sit on the verge above the road. Two of them, one with long plaits and a hair band, perform a song against the sky, leaning together, laughing and rolling their eyes; others write in little notebooks on their knees, unwrap sandwiches, tip bottles to their mouths, crowd round a magazine whose title ends in Mädelschaft, sleep in the sun with flowers laid on them, and lie in threes whispering. Many of the youngest wear flowered dresses rather than uniform.
The girls of the Jungmädelbund were between ten and fourteen, those of the BDM proper up to eighteen. Trude Mohr, and from late 1937 Jutta Rüdiger, led the girls' organisation; its hikes were meant to make them hardy future mothers, but the roadside belonged to their own games.
Film Two girls perform a song by the roadside, 1937
Film Girls with braids and the group at rest, 1937
Film The singing act in close-up, 1937
Film Faces of the singers, League of German Girls 1937
Film Writing a diary, then sleeping in the grass, 1937
Film Lunch on the roadside bank, League of German Girls 1937
Film Bread and lemonade by the road, 1937
Film Eating in the grass, a girl with a long braid, 1937
Film A girl with a braid eating in the sun, 1937
Film Reading a girls' magazine by the road, 1937
Film Letters and a girl asleep with flowers, 1937
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