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Children Of The Swastika: The Hitler Youth
by Eileen Heyes
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1562942379
- ISBN 13
- 9781562942373
- Seller
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About This Item
First edition, first printing.
96 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm. Includes Index (pp. 94-96), chronology, and suggested further reading. This is a book in sort of large print, presumably intended for mature younger students.
Black hardcover and dust jacket are in Near Fine to Fine condition with the exception of very minimal shelfwear, a few lightly dogeared pages, and a few very small and faint stains. Discard from the Wanipigow School Library, in protective plastic sleeve, with associated stickers, stamps, and card pocket (checked out only once, 30 years ago).
From the dust jacket:
"You are destined to be the leaders of a glorious new order," Adolf Hitler told the young people of Germany in 1938. This was the calculated appeal that masked the Nazi leader's plan to mold the youth of a nation to his will. His main tool would be the Hitler Youth, an organization that drew in Germany's young people with promises of a bright future and then sought to turn them into obedient servants of the Nazi regime.
The Hitler Youth began as one of many German youth groups in the 1920s. Soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, however, all other groups were disbanded. By the time World War II broke out in 1939, membership in the Nazi group was compulsory, and its goal was increasingly clear: to make an entire generation think and at in total uniformity. German boys were taught that the highest honor was to fight, and if necessary die, for their country. German girls were taught that their role was to be wives and mothers and to bear strong sons. Both were taught that they owed unquestioning loyalty to the Nazi dictator --- even if that meant turning in parents who made anti-Nazi remarks.
The youth programs mixed fun with indoctrination, holding meetings, sports competitions, camping trips, holiday celebrations, and rallies. But gradually, the youth of Germany were drawn into all aspects of the Nazi regime — police work, propaganda, population resettlement, agriculture, the military. The Hitler Youth became a source of recruits for the SS, Hitler's elite military and police force. By 1944 youths as young as fifteen were being sent into battle.
In Children of the Swastika, Eileen Heyes outlines in chilling detail how Hitler exploited the idealism of Germany's young people and bent them to his will. Her extensive research, including interviews with former Hitler Youth members, helps shed light on the events that caused a generation to give up the right of independent thought.
Eileen Heyes's interest in the Hitler Youth began years ago, with stories told by a family member who grew up in Hitler's Germany and belonged to the organization. Now a free-lance writer, she was previously an editor for The Los Angeles Times and has written for a variety of publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
Photograph courtesy of Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
96 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm. Includes Index (pp. 94-96), chronology, and suggested further reading. This is a book in sort of large print, presumably intended for mature younger students.
Black hardcover and dust jacket are in Near Fine to Fine condition with the exception of very minimal shelfwear, a few lightly dogeared pages, and a few very small and faint stains. Discard from the Wanipigow School Library, in protective plastic sleeve, with associated stickers, stamps, and card pocket (checked out only once, 30 years ago).
From the dust jacket:
"You are destined to be the leaders of a glorious new order," Adolf Hitler told the young people of Germany in 1938. This was the calculated appeal that masked the Nazi leader's plan to mold the youth of a nation to his will. His main tool would be the Hitler Youth, an organization that drew in Germany's young people with promises of a bright future and then sought to turn them into obedient servants of the Nazi regime.
The Hitler Youth began as one of many German youth groups in the 1920s. Soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, however, all other groups were disbanded. By the time World War II broke out in 1939, membership in the Nazi group was compulsory, and its goal was increasingly clear: to make an entire generation think and at in total uniformity. German boys were taught that the highest honor was to fight, and if necessary die, for their country. German girls were taught that their role was to be wives and mothers and to bear strong sons. Both were taught that they owed unquestioning loyalty to the Nazi dictator --- even if that meant turning in parents who made anti-Nazi remarks.
The youth programs mixed fun with indoctrination, holding meetings, sports competitions, camping trips, holiday celebrations, and rallies. But gradually, the youth of Germany were drawn into all aspects of the Nazi regime — police work, propaganda, population resettlement, agriculture, the military. The Hitler Youth became a source of recruits for the SS, Hitler's elite military and police force. By 1944 youths as young as fifteen were being sent into battle.
In Children of the Swastika, Eileen Heyes outlines in chilling detail how Hitler exploited the idealism of Germany's young people and bent them to his will. Her extensive research, including interviews with former Hitler Youth members, helps shed light on the events that caused a generation to give up the right of independent thought.
Eileen Heyes's interest in the Hitler Youth began years ago, with stories told by a family member who grew up in Hitler's Germany and belonged to the organization. Now a free-lance writer, she was previously an editor for The Los Angeles Times and has written for a variety of publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
Photograph courtesy of Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
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- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000223
- Title
- Children Of The Swastika
- Author
- Eileen Heyes
- Illustrator
- [various]
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Library Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1562942379
- ISBN 13
- 9781562942373
- Publisher
- Millbrook Press
- Place of Publication
- Brookfield, CT, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 96
- Size
- 24
- Keywords
- Nazi history; Germany; psychology; brainwashing; war; military; dictatorships; WWII; Hitler-jugend; juvenile literature; fanaticism; exploitation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Textbooks; True Crime; Biography / Autobiography; Creepy Children; Philosophy & Ethics; Politics, Government, & Law; Cults; History;
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