Author: GEHLEN, WILHELM R. & DON A. GREGORY
Title: Jungvolk the Story of a Boy Defending Hitler's Reich
Description: Philadelphia: Casemate, 2008. First Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 1932033874. Hard cover is grey boards with black spine, gold lettering on spine. DJ in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 29 b/w photographs. 20 chapters and an epilogue. "It might seem amazing today that mere children during the Nazi era in Germany were required to do their part for "Fuhrer, Volk, and Vaterland", but that is exactly what happened during the cataclysm of the Third Reich. Their lessons in school apart from a basic curriculum, revolved aoround aircraft ID, scrap and herb collecting, parades and inspections messenger dury and anti-aircraft defense." In this book Gehlen, born in 1933 the year Hitler came to power, looks back on his unique childhood, provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror and, strangely enough, black humour of life just behind the front lines of Germany in World War II. As seen through the eyes of a child who never knew normality, but was expert in aircraft identification and bomb weights. ; B&W Photographs; 9.10 X 6 X 1.20 inches; ix, 326 pages. New in New dust jacket .

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