Der Bund Deutscher Mädel

German League of Girls in the Hitler Youth movement By age 10 all German girls were required to join the BDM The BDM was the female organization under the Hitler Youth At age 17 the girls could join the Belief and Beauty movement within the BDM The primary focus of both movements was special training to become good wives mothers and homemakers They learned cooking sewing child care They learned all about Germanys leader Adolf Hitler and Nazism My mother grew up in Nazi Germany and her stories about the BDM were very interesting The children were not involved in the atrocities that occurred