Interview with Ute Allenberg, a BDM member (Bund Deutscher Mädel, or League of German Girls), Glaube und Schönheit (Faith and Beauty) model, wife of an SS man and bombing survivor. Frankfurt, 1988

Thanks for meeting me and allowing me to ask you some questions. I understand you were part of the BDM before the war. What was it like for you?

Ute: Oh that’s easy to answer, it was a good time for me back then, and things were always so cheerful and enthusiastic. I came to the BDM in 1935; my parents were early supporters of Hitler and allowed me to jo…