A Deutsches Jungvolk Membership Badge Hold 1912 Major John Grey Baldwin

1912 Major John Grey Baldwin

attacking two balloons and ground targets

1896 in Kingston on Spey

21 mm x 26

the belt measuring 47 mm x 865 mm

A Deutsches Jungvolk Membership Badge Hold 1912 Major John Grey BaldwinA 1930s Deutsches Jungvolk (DJ) German Youth badge; horizontal pin; marked Ges. Gesch on reverse; measuring 21 mm in diameter; fine condition. Footnote: The Deutsches Jungvolk was a youth organization similar to the Hitler Youth, but was meant solely for boys of the ages 10 14. Membership became fully compulsary for boys in 1939. By the end of the war some members had become child soldiers to fend off allied advances as a desperate last resort.