Life in the Hitler Youth

[Jaga]

2 weeks ago I found this book in the library:
Life in the Hitler Youth, by Jennifer Kelley
www.amazon.com/Way-People-Live-Hitler-Youth/dp/156006613X

It is directed towards young leaders but I think it is interesting for many adults. The author did a really good job. She does not accuse or judge anybody, she just describes how people lived in these times in this region.

The book has many pictures, it shows reports and memories of people who really lived through these times.

[Jaga]

Here is how the author describes National Socialism, a fragment:

"the National Socialists taught that "a man, though scientifically little educated but physically healthy, who has a sound, firm character, filled with jouful determination and will power, is of greater value to the national community than an ingenious weakling". Intellectuals were seen as sissies....


check your public library, because the book is really good