Hitler Youth visit Dorchester in April 1935 This photo shows a group of Hitler Youth pictured at a location you will most likely recognise. The youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany came to the county town at the invitation of the 5th Dorchester Troop Boy Scouts (Mill Street Mission) on April 5, 1935. As you can see in this photo they were welcomed at Thomas Hardy s Dorchester home Max Gate. They were invited by the Wessex novelist’s wife Florence – although she was absent at the time. The Dorset County Chronicle covered the visit with the headline ‘Visit of German friends to Dorchester . The Hitler Youth came to the town to pay their respects at the German memorial laid down in Fordington cemetery after the First World War.