One Hitler Youth Knife, Untold Stories
The dream sidearm for every. My father discovered this in 1944 as a world war ii infantryman. The boys only were given hj knives after. Introduced in 1933, the hitler youth rally knife (fahrtenmesser) was the first nazi dagger. I inherited a real one from my grandfather who fought in the us 69th recon and took it off a german pow in the mop up operations after the battle of the bulge.
My grandfather said it was given to him by my great uncle ted. He was a tank receiver in europe. This hitler youth knife and case is shaped like a military bayonet and bears the emblem of the hitler youth. Beginning in 1933, the hitler youth and the league of german girls had an.
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