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On Wednesday, January 17, 1934, there was a meeting of the leaders of the Hitler Youth in the Oberland 2nd district.

The purpose of the meeting was a call for "passive" or even "violent" resistance against all opposing Catholic youth movements.

It was declared that the actions recommended against the Catholic youth movements should not be ordered officially by the NSDAP but rather be a secret directive to be carried out.

The instructions for the actions to be taken against the Catholic youth movements were as follows:

Badges on clothing must be removed by any means, possibly by force.

Any unified appearance of Catholic youth is to be prevented or destroyed.

Any major undertakings by Catholic youth must be reported to the Ministry of the Interior, which has promised to protect the Bannführer in every way.

Every leader is forbidden to lead his Hitler youth into church. At most, he can say: 'If someone wants to go to church, he can do so.'"

The Hitler Youth naturally accepted the call to go on the attack against the Catholic youth movement and did not have to be asked twice.

The attacks began quickly, everywhere.

On April 26, 1934, Archbishop's Ordinariate of Munich reported the following attacks on the Catholic youth movements to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior for the period from April 2 to 25:

Regensburg, Schliersee, Bad Reichenhall, Freilassing, Töging, Munich: St. Johann Baptist (twice), Neuhausen, St. Bonifaz (twice), St. Franziskus, St. Paul, Solln, St. Stefan, St. Rupert youth home on Berlepschstraße.

0n May 10, 1934, a prossession of the Catholic youth association from Oberaudorf and Kiefersfelden was "disrupted" by the Hitler Youth.

The following events took place....

At the entrance to Oberaudorf, SS men and Hitler Youths waited in a ditch and attacked the boys from the Catholic Youth Association who arrived on their bicycles.

In a rough and violent manner, they tore off the boys' blue shirts and christ symbols.

A rolled-up Catholic pennant was taken from one of their bicycles and dragged around in the dirt on the street.

When a truck arrived with 33 Catholic youth members, the SS men stopped it and took the blue shirts from the boys, while the league of German girls demanded the "White Rose" badge from the Catholic girls.

The SS then captured the second pennant.

In the evening, there was a joint victory celebration by the SS, Hitler Youth, and The League of German Girls, where they burnt the Catholic blue shirts and pennants.

The Catholic youth club in Wolfratshausen suffered a similar fate during an outing with a community mass.

30 Hitler youth members attacked the "Catholic youth dogs" and priest apprentices, beating them with their shoulder straps.

In Dorfen near Munich, not only were people threatened with a fence post, but the Hitler youth also destroyed the vicarage fence at night with an explosive device!

This caused the local priest to complain to the mayor.

In response to the priest's complaint, the mayor said helplessly:

"The problem is that you don't transfer the Catholic youth over to the Hitler Youth."

On a larger scale, acts of violence occurred against the Catholic youth of Berlin:

On Sunday, March 25, 1934, the Catholic youth leader of Greater Berlin called the Catholic youth to a meeting in Henningsdorf.

About 1,800 boys answered the call.

They were attacked by the Hitler Youth, and both their Catholic state insignia and about 150 church-sanctified banners and pennants were violently taken from them.

In addition to this "drilling" with shoulder straps and punches, the Hitler Youth tried to use kind words to "bring the Catholic youth to their senses" and persuade them to leave the catholic youth association and join the Hitler youth.

~Johann Neuhäusler~

Kreuz und Hakenkreuz: der Kampf des Nationalsozialismus gegen die katholische Kirche und der Kirchliche Widerstand.
Katholische kirch Verlag, Bayern.
Germany 1946. Page 167.

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