Boy Scouts of America Do Not Appreciate Jokes About the Hitler Youth

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​On one final April Fool's Day note, our local blog buddy Bucky Turco at Animal New York pulled a pretty fast one on a time-honored national group.

First, he grabbed images like the one you see to the right from the Boy Scouts' official website.

Then he plastered his blog with the images in place of standard ads, as if the Scouts had given him a big buy.

But anyone who clicked the ad was in for a surprise, because they led to an Australian newspaper article about how the Boy Scouts founder Lord Baden-Powel met with Hitler Youth chief of staff Hartmann Lauterbacher back in 1937.

Needless to say, the Scouts were not thrilled about the connection!

Lord Robert Baden-Powell's Scouts offered Hitler Youth friendship

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