When the Flagpoles Bloomed

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by Vera Oredsson


  BDM, Bund Deutscher Mädel (The League of German Girls, translator’s note): for girls between the ages of 14 and 18

  From JM the girls continued after going through Jugendweihe (the youth inauguration) with an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler and National Socialist Germany to BDM.

  Because the Swedish Church, which I was a member of, did not fulfill the requirement of neutrality, which my family had to accept, my Jugendweihe was seen as a confirmation and was celebrated at home. As far as I am concerned, my Jugendweihe was performed during the war and the service was done by volunteer schooling, like collections for the soldiers, help to the victims of the bombings, and the clean-up work after the terror bombings. The work in the rural areas on the farms was part of our job, but there was also time for sports, games, information, personal performances, drills, and marches. The latter appealed to us because we felt more like equals with the male organizations.

  I can only remember joy, the will to live, comradeship, and devotion within the youth movement, especially as long as I lived in Berlin. The only sour apples in the basket that irritated me were that my results in sports were not always that good. If, with my long throws with balls, javelins, shot put and discus, I could win high points for the desirable annual sport spin, I was overjoyed, but it only happened twice because my results in jumping, running, and hurdles were too low.

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  KLV, Kinderlandverschickung (Child Land Dispatch)

  The NSV (see below) organized the evacuation of the children from the major cities during the Allies’ air raids. The government paid for the children’s room and board, education, and leisure activities while they were away from home. It was up to the parents if they wanted their children to stay in these camps. Some children went to stay with friends or relatives in the country, while others stayed at home with their parents.

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  SA, Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers, translator’s note)

  Is there anything as lied about as the SA? These men in their brown shirts, with their songs, walked through the streets. They were normal young men and fathers who found a sense of community and comradeship in meaningful activity. They were neither boozers, sadists, nor common hateful monsters that bellowed like dregs through the streets, as they are often portrayed in the Hollywood movies. Lies are often entirely without limit.

  Because my father was an SA leader I had close contact with the SA men and was often allowed to go with information to “his men” when it came to changed meeting times, change of venue, and the like. All of them were proper, respectful, and nice people. That this corps was to have consisted of beasts and so-called uneducated boors, as today’s education tries to teach, is a complete lie.

  For us National Socialists, all working people are of equal worth. We do not value people by their titles, but if there happens to be a degree-obsessed title fanatic who still wants to have that as a measure of value in his relations, we can remind him that when it comes to the SA, it had members from Kaiser Wilhelm’s closest relatives and my own father was a certified engineer with top grades from both high school and university. This is just one example of how the lies about the SA can be spread amongst ignorant people.

  The services of the SA consisted of being blockade chains with foreign state visits in the country’s capital because the curious Berliners crowded around down the parade street. Or when Adolf Hitler travelled through the joyful folk masses. The Olympic pictures from 1936 show much of the services of the SA men as functionaries and the like.

  During the war years their services on the home front were irreplaceable. They kept the streets clean from snow and leaves. They were on watch in the neighbourhoods during the night bombings, they alerted people to where the bombs had struck, they put out fires, encouraged people, and were called upon to prevent panic, and to do clearing work when the danger-is-over signal sounded.

  They met over a beer when the opportunity arose. They had their sporting events. They sang and marched. I was happy when I saw the long columns, where one saw the swastika armbands moving in perfect time with the movement of the men’s arms, shone out and disappeared … And with my father as troop leader, who marched at his platoon’s side, I felt proud.

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  SS, Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron, translator’s note)

  Personally I did not have as much contact with the SS as I did with the SA. The SS men I did however get to know were fantastic. Generally speaking, the so-called “advantageous appearance” of fresh radiance and dignity that later on gave the label of “a mother-in-law’s dream”, symbolized them.

  The few times I came in contact with them, exchanged letters with one, I could do nothing but admire them. Their education was both difficult and of high class, and was naturally directed wholly towards the National Socialist spirit.

  Race consciousness was the goal and I have often wondered what is wrong with being an elitist or race conscious. It never means racial hate or looking down on other races just because one honours one’s own. How much of the misery in the world does not have its roots in this widespread racial mixing that goes against the laws of nature? We live today in a superficial world, forced upon us after the great outbreak of peace in 1945, where we white Europeans and Nordic people were invaded by foreign races who, not only as the goal of the victors, forced upon us their so-called music, Islamic religion, the spread of AIDS, and the suppression of women, to name a few things. And in the trails of these we find drug abuse, criminality, and the disgust of our nations’ traditions.

  If there is anything that should be the dream of the European people, it is the existence of the SS, and I refuse to understand the so-called national sympathizers who, in their eagerness, rub out their former National Socialist sympathies by denouncing the SS. Of course their “distancing” is merely a fawning towards our opposition to try to win favour in their opinion, but such individuals just prove that their “National Socialist conviction” never had any depth to it.

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  NSV, Nationalsozialiatische Volkswohlfart (National Socialist People’s Welfare, translator’s note)

  This was a social organization that was divided into two main groups, the brown and the blue. These represented the child welfare centers, counselors, maternity care, health care, everything that was connected to the welfare of the people. The blue group had less of a political character, while the brown one was closer to the SS. I can mention that such things as the Red Cross, the nuns’ social contributions, the lay workers, etc., were all considered to be a part of the welfare services. NSV was one of the organizations that provided care, and it worked side by side with the others.

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  RAD, Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service, translator’s note)

  This was an organization for young men and women, where the men worked with infrastructure, for example, and during the war with cleaning up and rebuilding the bombed areas and communications whereas the women worked with farmers, families, and childcare centers in the rural areas. All members of the RAD were educated in and about well-kept homes in the country. One-year RAD service was compulsory so that the city girls could learn about life in the country in the name of community service. Girls from the country got to work in factories for the same purpose and got a glimpse of production and where, amongst other things, the tools for agriculture came from. During the war the services were naturally done within the arms industry.

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  SSS, Svensk Socialistisk Samling (Swedish Socialist Congregation, translator’s note)

  This organization had an office in Berlin. Ties of friendship were made between expatriated Swedes who had been frozen out of the Swedish Church. Swedish volunteers and functionaries who were trained in Germany could meet there.

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  There were of course many more organizations. Even within the organizations that I have mentioned there were branches for dif
ferent interests: flying, gliding, sea fare and motor vehicles, and the many cultural branches for music, painting, and sculptures.

  Everything and everyone was satisfied. The only common direction that could be noticed was that everything that was done should benefit the people and the home country.

  Published by Logik Förlag

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