LEADER 04734nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910953323203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674039353 010 $a0674039351 024 3 $a9780674019911 035 $a(CKB)2440000000013075 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12038564 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10171441 035 $a(PQKB)10061167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484987 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484987 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10612027 035 $a(PQKB)11657206 035 $a(WaSeSS)bw9780674019911 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314314 035 $a(OCoLC)923110446 035 $a(DE-B1597)574330 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300302 035 $a(Perlego)1148426 035 $a(EXLCZ)992440000000013075 100 $a20040511d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHitler Youth /$fMichael H. Kater 205 $aAnnotated 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (355 pages) 300 $aOriginally published: 2004. 311 0 $a9780674014961 311 0 $a0674014960 311 0 $a9780674019911 311 0 $a0674019911 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-345) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1 ?Make Way, You Old Ones!? --$t2 Serving in the Hitler Youth --$tIntroduction --$tIn Search of Monopoly and Uniformity --$tAuthoritarianism, Militarism, Imperialism --$tProblems of Training, Discipline, and Leadership --$t3 German Girls for Matrimony and Motherhood --$tIntroduction --$tThe Bund Deutscher Mädel in Peacetime --$tThe Challenges of World War II --$tEugenics and Race --$t4 Dissidents and Rebels --$tIntroduction --$tThe Varieties of Dissidence --$tThe Empire Strikes Back --$t5 Hitler?s Youth at War --$tIntroduction --$tElation and Disenchantment --$tDetours, Duplications, and Alternatives --$tThe Final Victory --$tHitler?s Young Women Deceived --$t6 The Responsibility of Youth --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 8 $aThe recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933. Michael Kater traces the history of Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversation, and the subsequent fate of young recruits.$bIn modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany. Determining that by age ten children's minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between the ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The result was a potent tool for bending young minds and hearts to the will of Adolf Hitler. Baldur von Schirach headed a strict chain of command whose goal was to shift the adolescents' sense of obedience from home and school to the racially defined Volk and the Third Reich. Luring boys and girls into Hitler Youth ranks by offering them status, uniforms, and weekend hikes, the Nazis turned campgrounds into premilitary training sites, air guns into machine guns, sing-alongs into marching drills, instruction into indoctrination, and children into Nazis. A few resisted for personal or political reasons, but the overwhelming majority enlisted. Drawing on original reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Kater traces the history of the Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, and the subsequent fate of young recruits. Millions of Hitler Youth joined the armed forces; thousands gleefully participated in the subjugation of foreign peoples and the obliteration of "racial aliens." Although young, they committed crimes against humanity for which they cannot escape judgment. Their story stands as a harsh reminder of the moral bankruptcy of regimes that make children complicit in crimes of the state. 606 $aNational socialism and youth 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1933-1945 615 0$aNational socialism and youth. 676 $a943.0860835 700 $aKater$b Michael H.$f1937-$0865356 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953323203321 996 $aHitler Youth$94368251 997 $aUNINA