Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany / Helene Munson.
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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Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.