Hitlerjugend: An In-Depth History: Unsterbliche Gefolgschaft der Hitlerjugend
by Arvo L. Vercamer

In late 1933, early 1934, Hitler and the HJ leadership created what they called the Unsterbliche Gefolgschaft der Hitlerjugend, the immortal following of the Hitlerjugend. This was a special organ created to honour those Hitlerjugend members who had died or been murdered while serving the cause of Nationalist Socialism. One of the most prominent HJ martyrs was 15-year old Herbert Norkus. The communists, in an especially brutal fashion, had murdered him on January 24th, 1932. Because he was the youngest HJ member to have died to date, he was of excellent propaganda value to the NSDAP and to the HJ movement. Herbert Norkus was to the Hitlerjugend what Horst Wessel became to Hitler and the NSDAP in the years to come.

Name	Age	Date of death
Fritz Kröber	17	26 Apr 1925
Hans Queitsch	16	20 June 1927
Paul Thewellis	25	23 Jan 1931
Rudolf Schröter	17	12 Feb 1931
Gerhard Liebsch	17	26 May 1931
Hans Hoffmann	17	17 Aug 1931
Hans Mallon	17	3 Sep 1931
Gerhard Wittemburg	18	17 Sep 1931
Herbert Norkus	15	24 Jan 1932
Georg Preiser	18	7 Feb 1932
Herbert Howarde	18	20 June 1932
Wener Gerhardt	19	30 June 1932
Erich Niejahr	15	5 Oct 1932
Josef Grün	12	26 Oct 1932
Erika Jordan	17	28 Oct 1932
Walter Wagnitz	16	1 Jan 1933
Otto Blöcker	17	26 Feb 1933
Christian Grössmann	18	26 Feb 1933
Josef Neumeier	18	16 Mar 1933
Peter Friess	16	17 Mar 1933
Otto Schmelzer	18	4 Apr 1933
Karl Thomas	19	31 Aug 1933

Two Deutsche Jungvolk members stand guard at a shrine for HJ martyrs

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