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Author Munson, Helene, author.

Title Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany / Helene Munson.

Publication Info. New York : The Experiment, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2192488~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  940.53161 MUN    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  940.53161 MUN    AVAILABLE
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Description 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Revision of: Boy soldiers : a personal story of Nazi elite schooling and its legacy of trauma. Cheltenham : The History Press, [2021].
Contents Introduction: Závada revisited -- The wrong time to die -- Travelling 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 "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Dunker, Hans-Joachim, 1927-2005 -- Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Germany -- Biography.
Reichsschule Feldafing (Feldafing, Germany) -- Alumni and alumnae -- Biography.
National socialism and education.
Child soldiers -- Germany -- Diaries.
Waffen-SS. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Horst Wessel", 18 -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Czech Republic -- Závada (Opava District)
Závada (Opava District : Czech Republic) -- History, Military.
Munson, Helene -- Family.
Diplomats -- Germany -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781615198597
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