1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953323203321

Autore

Kater Michael H. <1937->

Titolo

Hitler Youth / / Michael H. Kater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

9780674039353

0674039351

Edizione

[Annotated]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages)

Disciplina

943.0860835

Soggetti

National socialism and youth

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 “Make Way, You Old Ones!” -- 2 Serving in the Hitler Youth -- Introduction -- In Search of Monopoly and Uniformity -- Authoritarianism, Militarism, Imperialism -- Problems of Training, Discipline, and Leadership -- 3 German Girls for Matrimony and Motherhood -- Introduction -- The Bund Deutscher Mädel in Peacetime -- The Challenges of World War II -- Eugenics and Race -- 4 Dissidents and Rebels -- Introduction -- The Varieties of Dissidence -- The Empire Strikes Back -- 5 Hitler’s Youth at War -- Introduction -- Elation and Disenchantment -- Detours, Duplications, and Alternatives -- The Final Victory -- Hitler’s Young Women Deceived -- 6 The Responsibility of Youth -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933. Michael Kater traces the history of Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversation, and the subsequent fate of young recruits.