HJ-Wintermütze, Opinions Requested

[ErWeSa]

Witnesses of times bygone. People were more resigned ("schicksalsergeben") then - otherwise they wouldn't have survived - Fräulein Böcker doesn't look too happy for sure - but what would have been her alternatives? We will never know, and there are so many young people out there who don't know the first thing of these times without internet, smartphone, electronics etc. etc. which are the background of all the people who made the things we collect today. Women like Fräulein Böcker were the exeption to the rule, normally women didn't have a job (at least no full-time job) - they had to manage the household, the kids etc. which was more than a full time job. Only think of washing the laundry. Those who were lucky had a big kettle in which the linen was boiled, brushed with soap, then rinsed in a big tub with cold water, then mangled, then pegged out and then ironed. Nice job for a week-end. No washing-machines, no sewing-machines, no dis-washers, no kitchen gadgets, no TV, sometimes a radio or a grammophone, no car, some had a bike (I own some bikes of the era, they cost then the wages of several months of a skilled worker) and so on and so forth.
And - mind you - we are speaking of the lucky ones. Those who weren't lucky enough to have a job, a home, enough to eat, and of those there were many in the 1930ies, were really pitiable and, understandably, prone to the promises of the NS. The middle class is more in need of explication in this regard - Stichwort Arisierungen.
But I am digressing, the thread is about HJ winter caps (a luxury for some of the kids of the above-mentioned "underprivileged"). Anyway, IMHO, one shouldn't collect these things without any awareness of the contemporay circumstances.