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Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany Cover Image Book Book

Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany / Helene Munson.

Munson, Helene, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781615198597
  • ISBN: 1615198598
  • Physical Description: 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : The Experiment, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Revision of: Boy soldiers : a personal story of Nazi elite schooling and its legacy of trauma. Cheltenham : The History Press, 2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Závada revisited -- The wrong time to die -- Traveling to another country -- The vanished boarding school -- Not a Napola -- Castle Birdsong -- Schooled by barbarians -- The flag is more than death -- Franz and the FLAK -- Glasses and mineral water -- Barrack blues -- Dresden and departures -- Arriving in Sudetenland -- The Battle for Zawada -- Saved by a grenade -- Germanskis on the run -- A long way home -- Epilogue 1: The back-to-front file -- Epilogue 2: The glass cabinet -- Appendix I: List of locations -- Appendix II: List of abbreviations and glossary.
Summary, etc.:
"The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"-- Provided by publisher.

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Subject: Dunker, Hans-Joachim, 1927-2005 > Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Germany > Biography.
Reichsschule Feldafing (Feldafing, Germany) > Alumni and alumnae > Biography.
National socialism and education.
Child soldiers > Germany > Diaries.
Waffen-SS. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Horst Wessel", 18 > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Czech Republic > Závada (Opava District)
Závada (Opava District : Czech Republic) > History, Military.
Munson, Helene > Family.
Diplomats > Germany > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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