The Hitler Youth plot that tried to worm its way into our Scout movement
March 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under World News
Intelligence chiefs feared the Nazis were plotting to destabilise Britain through infiltrating the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement, previously secret documents revealed yesterday.
The fears were apparently well founded - Hitler Youth leaders had a warm meeting with the then-chief scout, Lord Baden-Powell, and invited him to meet the Fuhrer in Berlin.
Declassified files from the National Archive also reveal that seemingly innocent young Germans on cycling tours of Britain in 1937 and 1938 may have been Hitler Youth ‘spyclists’ carrying out reconnaissance useful for a future invasion.
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