"My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes...That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication...That is how I will create the New Order." –

Adolf Hitler, 1933.

By 1935, about 60 percent of Germany's young people belonged to the Hitler Youth. Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach declared it as "The Year of Physical Training" and introduced the major annual HJ event " The Sports Competition". Medals were awarded to youths who performed rigorous athletic drills and met strict physical fitness standards. Every summer, a day would now be set aside as the "Day of the State Youth" for these events.

Propaganda postcard for the Winter Games - 1941

Sports Award Plaques and Medallions

Non-portable (aka; table medals) were usually presented for sports events, in recognition for service or achievement. Such awards were not officially recocnized as a national award, but rather were rendered by a local unit, organization or event chairman/committee

Non-Award Plaques and Medallions

(Commemorative - Other)

Commemorative Plaques for the Annual Hitler Youth Camps

Medallion for the Furthering of the Hitler Youth Hostel Building Programme

Instituted in 1937 (the Year of Hostel Building - "Jahr des Heimbeschaffung") by Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach, the "Heim der Hitlerjugend" medallion was presented to those who were of great assistance in making the programme possible

Commemorative Plaque for the Nürnberg Rally - 1938