"Assembled for communications exercise" (German: <i>Zur Nachrichtenübung angetreten</i>), propaganda postcard showing a photo of uniformed Hitler Youth boys (<i>Hitlerjungen</i>) lined up in rows ready for a paramilitary training in the use of field telephony, etc. 
<ul><li>The boys have backpacks with cased field telephones, cables on reels in signalman's cable layer holders, and other equipment. They are dressed in military-style dark navy blue <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://histclo.com/youth/youth/org/nat/hitler/hitleru.htm">HJ winter uniforms</a>, with swastika armbands and peaked field caps.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth" class="extiw" title="en:Hitler Youth">Hitler Youth</a> (German: <i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitlerjugend" class="extiw" title="de:Hitlerjugend">Hitlerjugend</a></i>, HJ) was the paramilitary youth organisation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" class="extiw" title="en:Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP" class="extiw" title="de:NSDAP">NSDAP</a>) in Germany, founded in 1922. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" class="extiw" title="en:Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> (the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Reich" class="extiw" title="en:Third Reich">Third Reich</a>, <i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drittes_Reich" class="extiw" title="de:Drittes Reich">Drittes Reich</a></i>). HJ was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Youngsters_in_the_Hitler_Youth" class="extiw" title="en:German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth">German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth</a> (<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Jungvolk_in_der_Hitler_Jugend" class="extiw" title="de:Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitler Jugend">Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitler Jugend</a>, DJ or DJV) for younger boys aged 10 to 14.</li>
<li>Photo postcard (<i>Fotokarte, Foto Ansichtskarte, Foto-AK, Postkarte</i>) published by Verlag E.A. Schwerdtfeger, Berlin, Germany.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Propaganda" class="extiw" title="en:Nazi Propaganda">Nazi Propaganda</a> (<i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalsozialistische_Propaganda" class="extiw" title="de:Nationalsozialistische Propaganda">Nationalsozialistische Propaganda</a></i>)</li></ul>
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