Hitler youth / Michael H. Kater
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.Description: 355 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0674014960
- 9780674014961
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 943.086 K19 | Available | 33111005379496 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An in-depth account of the Hitler Youth traces the history of the organization, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, as well as the fate of the young recruits and the implications of the recruitment of children into a corrupt political organization.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-345) and index.
1. "Make way, you old ones!" -- 2. Serving in the Hitler youth -- In search of monopoly and uniformity -- Authoritarianism, militarism, imperialism -- Problems of training, discipline, and leadership -- 3. German girls for matrimony and motherhood -- The Bund Deutscher Mädel in peacetime -- The challenges of World War II -- Eugenics and race -- 4. Dissidents and rebels -- The varieties of dissidence -- The empire strikes back -- 5, Hitler's youth at war -- Elation and disenchantment -- Detours, duplications, and alternatives -- The final victory -- Hitler's young women deceived -- 6. The responsibility of youth.