Thirty young Nazi leaders in Hitler’s youth organization are staying with thirty English and Welsh lads at the first Anglo-German camp in this country at Bryanston School, Dorset, the News-Chronicle discloses here. The British members of the camp are five young miners, five cigarette factory hands and a number of public school boys.
“Glimpse of the youth of Hitler’s Germany—an impressive, if to me, somewhat disturbing glimpse —may be caught at Bryanston school, Dorset, where thirty members of Hitler’s youth movement are in camp with English boys,” J. L. Hodson writes in the News-Chronicle.
“They live; work and play together and are becoming friends,” the writer continues. “The aim of Herr Jochen Benemann, a pleasant young German journalist, that the youth of both countries should understand one another better — he doesn’t hope they will become single-minded—is undoubtedly being realized. He has addressed twenty-three public schools and fifteen factories; has founded what he calls ‘slands’ at Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, of people who share his wish for better relations.
“Already 100 English boys have applied for membership of later Anglo-German camps in Germany. Herr Benemann is on the Hitler youth movement staff. Most of the German boys I saw are ‘leaders.'”
An English boy said: “They say there are no class distinctions in Germany now—it doesn’t matter whether you are a millionaire or a tramp. They say the worst that happened to the Jews was that some windows were broken,” Mr. Hodson reports, but an English youth who has attended two or three of the camps, he adds, said that on the Jewish question, however, the boys don’t get any closer together at all.
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