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How Nazis tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts

8:35 PM 03/08/2010
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Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, responded enthusiastically to a Nazi charm offensive aimed at aligning his movement with the Hitler Youth in the run-up to the Second World War, according to secret MI5 documents.

The colonial warrior, whose best-selling military training manuals started the Scouting phenomenon, was wined and dined by senior Hitler Youth figures and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German ambassador to Britain, who made a lengthy plea in 1937 for the two organisations to be put in “closer touch”.

The proposed alliance between the Scouts and the Hitler Youth, whose members were indoctrinated in anti-Semitism and told they would become “Aryan supermen”, coincided with growing alarm in MI5 at a sudden influx of uniformed German youngsters taking part in pre-war cycling tours around Britain.

Full story: Operation Dib-dib-dib: how Nazis tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts – Home News, UK – The Independent

Tags: Adolf Hitler, Ambassador, Antisemitism, Britain, Founder, Germany, Nazi Germany, Politics, United Kingdom, World War II
  • awlhattinokaddle

    This story is nothing more that a further attempt by Militant Homosexuals to destroy the Boy Scouts.
    Ever since the Militant Homo Community was told that many people didn’t think it a good idea to give Homosexuals access to Adolescent Boys as Scoutmasters, they have systematically been trying to destroy the organization.
    They took it all the way to the Supreme Court and Lost.
    Then the pressure was on and funding that had been available for decades began to dry up. First The Pew Charitable Trusts, then The United Way.
    Meeting places that had been available for years, such as school cafeterias or Town Halls are no longer open to the Scouts.
    Their insistence on access to our Children will ultimately end in Tragedy.
    They haven’t seen true militancy until they take aim at our Children.