Hitler Youth - Hardcover

An essential topic for understanding indoctrination and socialization in the Third Reich, Michael Kater's timely synthesis is a rich work of scholarship, both in terms of the documents and the historiography. He surveys not only the experience of the Hitler Youth, male and female, but also those who for a variety of reasons resisted or rebelled against the increasingly monolithic organization of German youth; Kater acknowledges that 'Hitler's youth' were not all Hitler Youth, even beyond the date on which membership in Nazi youth organizations became obligatory.--Thomas J. Saunders"European History Quarterly" (05/01/2008)

An in-depth account of the Hitler Youth traces the history of the organization, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, as well as the fate of the young recruits and the implications of the recruitment of children into a corrupt political organization.