Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the Ss

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Summary: Bund Deutsche Madel
Review: There have been a wide range of materials written on the nazi youth movement, but the vast majority tend to focus almost exclusively on the male Hilter Jugend. However, "Hitler's Children" has a fairly reasonable discussion of the Bund Deutsche Madel for girls as well. Among other things, it focusses on the girls' involvement in farming to help with the war effort.

Another main subject is the involvement of the SS with the Hitler youth for indoctrination and recruiting purposes, as well as espionage. There is some discussion of the leaders of the Hitler youth, although it does not really get extensively biographical. There is also a fair amount of coverage of the involvement of the Hitler youth in military activities (air raid fire brigades and digging anti-tank trenches towards the end). This book also has the only detailed discussion I have seen of the conflicts between the Hitler youth and the broad spectrum of other youth groups (communist, religious, middle class, etc.).