Literally, the Union of German Lasses.
This was the girls’ equivalent of the Hitler Youth
Movement. The German girls don’t mention
it at all in their letters. This is puzzling at first because it was actually
compulsory. Girls were expected to pay subs and to attend. However, it is
highly likely that it was such a part of their life during the 1930s and the
1940s that they didn’t think to mention it.
It plays an important role in Hani’s thread and becomes
paramilitary when the girls are asked to set Haus Lehrs on fire in the last
desperate weeks of the war.
