Gaisgich Oga an Darna Cogaidh 

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Gaisgich Òga an Dàrna Cogaidh (Kids of Courage)

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Drama set in late 1930s Germany as the rise of the Third Reich starts to impact on the country's youth.

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Margaret Cameron

Patsi MacKenzie

Gaisgich Òga an Dàrna Cogaidh (Kids of Courage): Series 1: Sgoil agus teaghlach anns an 'Treas Reich'/School and family in the 'Third Reich'

Gaisgich Òga an Dàrna Cogaidh

Sgoil agus teaghlach anns an 'Treas Reich'/School and family in the 'Third Reich'

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Anton wants to join the Hitler Youth like his classmates, but his father is against it.

In Germany 1938, ten-year-old Anton wants to be in the Hitler Youth like all his classmates, but his father is against it.

Anton wants to join the Hitler Youth, but his father is set against it, so Anton decides to forge his signature. To really belong, he must pass a test of courage, but during the initiation ceremony his father suddenly turns up, leading to a huge argument. His friend Greta also appears not to share his enthusiasm for Hitler Youth. But Anton feels safe because he has comrades to back him up. 

One day, while with his friends, he discovers by chance that Greta is Jewish. Can he still be friends with Greta despite this? On the night of 9 November 1938, Anton watches as violence breaks out on the streets. Greta and her parents seek protection from him and his family. Anton now sees what the Nazis are really capable of. Confidentially, he goes to his comrade Rudi for advice – and lands his father, Greta and her family in great difficulty.

The series is set in Germany, the country at the centre of the Second World War. In 1938, childhood in Germany was heavily influenced by Hitler Youth, an organisation set up under the National Socialists. Childhood and raising children were not private affairs in the Third Reich - by the age of ten at the latest, children became a 'state matter'. The influence of parents was to be limited. They were to 'gift their children to the Führer'. This not only impacted on the everyday life of the children but also, depending on the attitudes of the parents, on all family life.

Tha Anton ag iarraidh a dhol dhan bhuidheann Òigridh Hitler, ach le athair gu tur na aghaidh, tha Anton fhèin a’ cur làmh-sgrìobhaidh athair air iarrtas-clàraidh na buidhne. Airson a bhith ga-rìribh mar bhall, feumaidh e a dhol tro dheuchainn ghaisgeachd. Ge-tà, aig an dearbh àm sin tha athair a’ nochdadh agus tha iad a’ dol a-mach air a chèile gu dubh. Chan eil a charaid Greta idir cho dealasach mu Òigridh Hitler, ach tha Anton a’ faireachdainn sàbhailte am measg nan caraidean ùra aige. Aon latha ’s e ann an cuideachd nan caraidean sin tha e a’ faighinn a-mach gur e Iùdhach a tha ann an Greta.  A bheil e comasach dha fhèin is Greta a bhith nan caraidean a-nise? Air oidhche an 9mh den t-Samhain, 1938 tha Anton a’ faicinn fòirneart air na sràidean, agus feumaidh Greta agus a pàrantan fasgadh a shireadh còmhla ris fhèin ’s a theaghlach. Tha Anton a’ tuigsinn cò ris a tha na Nadsaidhean ga-rìribh coltach ach, an uair a thèid e a dh’iarraidh comhairle air a charaid Rudi tha e a’ cur Greta agus a teaghlach ann an cunnart mòr.

Tha an t-sreath a’ tòiseachadh anns a’ Ghearmailt, an dùthaich a bha aig cridhe an Dàrna Cogaidh. Ann an 1938, bha òigeachd san dùthaich sin air a chomharrachadh le dachaigh, sgoil agus gu sònraichte Òigridh Hitler, am buidheann òigridh aig Na Sòisealaich Nàiseanta. Cha robh òigeachd no àrach chloinne dìomhair bhon Treas Reich, agus mun àm a bha clann deich bliadhna a dh’aois bha iad air am faicinn mar “chùis stàite”. Bha buaidh phàrantan ri bhith cuingichte agus a’ chlann air an toirt mar “thiodhlac dhan a’ Führer”. 

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