Title: The Hitler Youth
Description: "Fed by compulsory enrollment, by 1938 the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) was 8.7 million members strong and growing. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth, brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda.

He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century German romanticism and pre-1914 youth culture, through the World War I radicalization of German youth, to its ultimate exploitation by the Nazi Party.".

"Ruthlessly indoctrinated into the ideals of a New Germany and a "Final Victory," and skillfully organized into quasi-military corps, members of the Hitler Youth later led the Fuhrer's voracious war machine and contributed to the Third Reich's last-ditch defense in the final days of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Hitler-Jugend, History, Youth, germany, Germany, history, 1918-1933, Germany, history, 1933-1945, Hitler, adolf, 1889-1945, Politics and government, The Cecil B. and Laura G. Currey Archive of Military History, Politique et gouvernement, National socialism