Hitler Youth

by Michael H. Kater

Book Overview

In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany. Determining that by age ten children's minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between the ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The result was a potent tool for bending...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019911
• ISBN13: 9780674019911
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"