A Hitler Youth
A Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Germany in the 1930s Henry Metelmann,
Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
ISBN: 1862272522
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-06-01
Summary:
This book is an autobiography of a railway worker's son who joined
the Hitler Youth at the age of 12 and became involved in the Nazi
movement which was passionately opposed by his parents - the conflict
between his Nazism and his father's socialism is a central theme.
This book will be of interest not only to the general reader but to
historians, political scientists, sociologists and others interested
in this unique period in German history. The book begins in the
pre-Nazi period and covers all aspects of life in Hamburg's strong
socialist working class community: street play, visits to the
countryside, family gatherings and school life as well as the scout
movement which was eventually to become the Hitler Youth. This
settled society was disrupted by the arrival of the Nazis who used
violence, propoganda and skillfully orchestrated gatherings and
marches to achieve total political dominence. The author gives an
account of the beating and intimidation of individual opponents of
the Nazi regime - trade unionists and others - and the climate of
fear and violence which gradually transformed his family, friends and
local community. We see the rise of Hitler and the terrible
consequences that followed through this detailed and sometimes
painfully honest personal account.
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