A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children During World War II

by Jost Hermand

Book Overview

Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be toughened up and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810112914
• ISBN13: 9780810112919
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"