A Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Germany in the 1930s by Metelmann, Henry
A Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Germany in the 1930s by Metelmann, Henry
Hardcover
ISBN 9781862272521 / 1862272522
Publisher: The History Press Ltd , 2004
Condition: As new. This book is in an excellent condition. The cover have some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
This book is an autobiography of a railway worker's son who joined the Hitler Youth at the age of 12, which was passionately opposed by his parents—the conflict between his Nazism and his father's socialism is a central theme. The book begins in the pre-Nazi period and covers all aspects of life in Hamburg's strong socialist working class community. This settled society was disrupted by the arrival of the Nazis who used violence, propoganda, and skillfully orchestrated gatherings and marches to achieve total political dominence. The author gives an account of the beating and intimidation of individual opponents of the Nazi regime, and the climate of fear and violence which gradually transformed his family, friends, and local community. We see the rise of Hitler and the terrible consequences that followed through this detailed and sometimes painfully honest personal account.