Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Concentraying purely ion the role of German girls in Hitler's Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarisation from first-hand accounts of wiomen who were indoctrinated into the Jung Madel and Bund Deutscher Madel as young girls. From the prosperous beginnings of 1933 to the cataclysmic defeat of 1945, this ... book examines in detail their specific roles as defined by the Nazi state.

Subject

1. Bund Deutscher Mädel > History
2. Bund Deutscher Mädel
3. Girls > Germany > History
4. Young women > Germany > History
5. National socialism and women
6. National socialism and youth
7. Girls > Societies and clubs
8. National socialism and women
9. National socialism and youth
10. Young women > Societies and clubs
11. Germany

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Introduction -- 1. The Third Reich is born -- 2. Mitte girls and the Jung Madel -- 3. Sugar on the dog shit -- 4. An audience with the Devil -- 5. Young women, sex and the Führer -- 6. The Bund Deutscher Madel -- 7. A white rose remembered -- 8. Bombs on the Reich -- 9. Girls on the land -- 10. Terror from the sky -- 11. The Volkstorm and the werewolf -- 12. A playground with guns -- 13. The fall of Berlin -- 14. The Soviet rape of Berlin -- 15. After the Reich.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain