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The article describes the fate of children under the Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), or Free German Youth, the young communists in Eastern Germany. Children are threatened that they will not be promoted in school. Difficulties encountered by high-school students and poorer children without FDJ membership card, on the other hand, include the little chance to graduate or attend universities and getting jobs. FDJ members are entrusted with responsible duties after being listed in the Red people's police. They do not believe anything else except communism.

The article reports on political events in East Germany as of April 17, 1950. It highlights the plan of the Communist-run Freie Deutsche Jugend to converge on Berlin's Western sectors in military formation on May 28, 1950. With a slogan of "Forward Berlin Must Be Ours, the theme of the march was changed from war to hearts and flowers. In response to the plans of the Communists, Western Germany launched a recruiting drive for extra policemen.

The article offers information on the 10th World Youth Festival sponsored by Communist bloc in Berlin, East Germany. It states that participants include members of the German Democratic Republic's highly organized Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ), Free German Youth. It mentions that the festival reflects the country's emerging worldliness after the iron-fisted rule of German communist leader Walter Ulbricht. It features West German Socialist youth Leader Wolfgang Roth discussing the issue on inter-European cooperation.