The founder of Boy Scouts treated possible alliances with the youth hitlerianas

The secret documents disqualified by the MI5 are demonstrated that Baden-Powell was professing openly his admiration towards the ideology by Nazi and his youth movement.

The founder of Boy Scouts, lord Baden-Powell, maintained contacts with representatives of Adolf Hitler two years before the beginning of the Second World war to speak about a possible alliance between his organization and the youth hitlerianas.

As he gathers the British press, documents disqualified by the MI5, the agency of counterespionage of the United Kingdom, they indicate that the meetings between Baden-Powell and the German ambassador in London, Joachim von Ribberntrop, provoked alarm between the authorities. Coinciding with these meetings, the police had detected a sudden increase of excursions cycle tourist to the United Kingdom of the youth hitlerianas, to whose members they were indoctrinated in the anti-Semitism and were aspiring to turn into "Aryan supermen".

The informations of the press of the epoch, which was naming this young people "cycle - spy", he had to the counterespionage to be interested by his activities before the suspicion that nationals were covering the country with help of the Scouts to assemble information about the infrastructure.

'Mein Kampf', a "wonderful book"

The secret documents demonstrate that Baden-Powell was professing openly his admiration towards the ideology Nazi and his youth movement, as it left steadfastness in an internal note written after a visit in 1937 of the leading high place Hartmann Lauterbacher.

In another occasion, after having dinner with ambassador Von Ribberntrop - considered like the architect of Hitler's foreign policy - it reflected in a missive his intention of bringing both organizations over like route "to support the peace between two nations". "The (ambassador) sees to the Movement Scout - he wrote - as a powerful agency to achieve it if we can support narrow bonds with the Movement Jugend of Germany. I said to him that it was completely in favor of any measurement that was favoring the understanding between our countries".

Baden-Powell, whom Mein Kampf was considering as a "wonderful book", confirmed further on that the diplomat had invited him to travel to Berlin to support a meeting with the proper Führer.

Nevertheless, the reports of the MI5 reveal that the founder of Boy Scouts was, in fact, a victim of the double game of the Germans. While in public Von Ribberntrop was speaking enthusiastically about the British-German big alliance, privately he was already warning Hitler of to that the war with London was inevitable.

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