Hitler's girls : doves amongst eagles / Tim Heath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heath, Tim, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bund Deutscher Mädel--History.

Bund Deutscher Mädel.

Girls--Germany--Societies and clubs--History.

Girls.

Young women--Germany--Societies and clubs--History.

Young women.

National socialism and women.

National socialism and youth.

Girls--Societies and clubs.

Young women--Societies and clubs.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books, 2017.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781526705327

152670532X

OCLC:

973919830

Publisher Number:

99973905014