~~ AD PERPETUAM MEMORIAM ~~
(our motto, meaning "to the eternal memory")
Welcome to the League of German Girls living history website, which is a part of the larger historical research page about the same
topic.
We are not a re-enacting unit in the truest sense of the word because our members are not all located in the same geographical area, nor do we usually attend events as a unit. Instead, we are an international group of people who have a strong historical interest in the League of German Girls and who want to educate people by doing the impression at schools, air shows, and general living history events that allow us to participate.
This website exists to help those who are interested in doing this impression to find out more about the League of German Girls - what it was, what they did, and what the uniforms looked like.
This site is also a guide for putting together your impression, from the information of what was worn and how, to links where you can purchase items for your own kit.
We hope that, if you chose to do this impression, you will use this website as a guide and resource, and that you will chose to do the impression well, rather than just throwing something together for the hell of it. We strive to be historically accurate, and want to keep people from doing the impression badly because it casts a bad light on us as BDM re-enactors as a whole.
We have a Yahoo group that we use to exchange information and tips, and anyone who has an interest in the League of German Girls or general daily life in the Third Reich, are welcome to join us there. If you need any additional help or information on getting started in your impression, please email me.
We are a group of dedicated historians interested in the history and uniforms of the League of German Girls. As such, we strive to be objective and educated on the subject, and we do not allow, tolerate, or associate with any kind of people or groups who share the political beliefs of national socialism, the Nazi party, or the Third Reich. The display of swastikas, runes, or other potentially offensive symbols connected with the Third Reich is done for strictly historical and educational purposes.
This group as a whole, as well as its individual members do not tolerate neo-Nazis, skinheads, racists, and extremists. The aforementioned are banned from becoming official members in this living history group and from participating in our Yahoo list. If you encounter people doing the BDM impression in bad taste and with a political connotation at an event, you can rest assured that they are not members of this group and that we distance ourselves from their behavior and beliefs.
Our mission is to do an accurate, objective impression of the BDM for educational and historical purposes. And, of course, to have fun
while doing it. After all, what's the point in doing all this research and spending all this money on the impression if it's not something
you can enjoy.