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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808733303321

Autore

Cornwall Mark

Titolo

The devil's wall : the nationalist youth mission of Heinz Rutha / / Mark Cornwall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-674-06489-5

0-674-06928-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

943.71

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Soggetti

Youth movements - Czech Republic - Sudetenland - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Czech Republic - Sudetenland - History - 20th century

Germans - Czech Republic - Sudetenland

Gays - Czech Republic - Sudetenland

Sudetenland (Czech Republic) Politics and government 20th century

Czechoslovakia History 1918-1938

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A German Bohemian Education -- 3. The Sacrifice -- 4. Rebirth -- 5. The Militant Youth Mission -- 6. Eros -- 7. A Leap into Ice-Cold Water -- 8. Sudeten Foreign Minister -- 9. Premonition of Disaster -- 10. The Cell -- Rutha's Ghost Epilogue -- Place Names in German and Czech -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall's biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism.