The organizer for the local communist chapter, a man named Stoppel, befriends Heini and invites him to an outing in the country, promising him swimming, camping and games.

In another part of the forest, Heini comes across the Hitler Youth camping by a lake where they are holding a midsummer bonfire.

When Heini returns home, he tells his mother about the Hitler Youth, and sings one of their songs to her, but his father overhears it and beats him for it.

Stoppel is impressed by the fact that Heini didn't tell the police that the communists were the ones who started the ruckus.

Heini's mother is so distraught that she decides to kill her son and herself by shutting the windows and leaving the gas on in their apartment at night.

The Hitler Youth leader takes care not to send Heini to the district where the communists live, but they find out where he is staying.

However, his fellow Hitler Youth Grundler has been taken in by the communist girl Gerda, and throws all the flyers in the river.

The production was overseen by Baldur von Schirach, the leader of the Hitler Youth, and filming was done in Neubabelsberg.

schmettern die hellen Fanfaren", better known by its refrain, Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran,[6] using an existing melody by Hans-Otto Borgmann, who was also responsible for the music.

[4] The film's Producer, Karl Ritter, recalled in his private diaries the famous scene where Vater Völker slaps his son violently after he overhears him singing the HJ song Unsere Fahne flattert uns voran.

[7] The character of Wilde was played by Karl Meixner, of whom Jay Baird said that he looked like "a Nazi version of the incarnation of the 'Jewish-Bolshevik' will to destruction".

[12][3] Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Robert Ley, Ernst Röhm, and other high Nazi functionaries also attended the Munich showing.

[13][14] It was premiered in the United States as Our Flag Leads Us Forward[15] at the Yorkville Theatre on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on 6 July 1934[16] and in March 1942 in Paris as Le jeune hitlérien.

The Garda Síochána (Irish police) feared the screening would be disrupted by communists and provided heavy protection inside and outside the theatre.

They noted the attendance of Senator Joseph Connolly who was an Irish government minister, as well as diplomats from Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland.