Hitler's Home Front by Don A. Gregory download book DOC, EPUB, PDF
9781473858206 English 1473858208 It's 1942 and you're a scrawny nine year old German boy who has born the year adolf hitler became chancellor. He's the only German leader you've ever known. Germany has already been at war for almost three years. Your father and all your adult male relatives are in some branch of the Wehrmacht. Your country's being bombed from the west and the invasion of Russia is slowing down. You hear stalingrad mentioned for the first time and there's talk of an enemy bent on destroying your homeland and enslaving its people if the war is lost. And with a group of other boys your age, you repeat the following: In the presence of this blood banner flag which represents our Führer. I swear to devote all my energy and all my strength to the savior of our country. Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him. So help me God. This was the Jungvolk oath. Administered to ten year olds in 1936 and afterward; although after the war began, no one carfd if you were not quite ten or maybe even not quite nine. Hitler's warning to others that. "your child belongs to us already...," had come true. Book jacket., Twelve years of rule by Hitler and the Nazi Party could have made Germany a third world country after the end of the war, and according to some highly placed Allied officials of the time; that would not have been such a bad idea. Whatever treatment the Allies had in mind for the Germans could not have been much worse than the conditions already in existence for them just before and just after the end of the war. The German economy and infrastructure was already a wreck and the inflation continued after the surrender with prices of essentials (if they could be bought) rising to double and triple that of 1943. Only the war industry continued to function reasonably well right up to the end. He has never voted for any political party and does not support one now, saying that the only honest politician he remembers is Adolf Hitler. "Hitler said, 'Give me five years and you won't recognize Germany'. This book is a memoir of Wilhelm Gehlen and his childhood in Nazi Germany, as a Nazi Youth and the awful circumstances which he and his friends and family had to endure during and following the war. Including a handful of recipes and descriptions of the strange and sometimes disgusting food that nevertheless kept people alive, this book sheds light on the truly awful conditions and the common feeling and aim among members of the Hitler Youth - that it was their duty to do everything possible to save the Thousand Year Reich in 1945.REVIEWS These are the memoirs of Wilhelm Reinhard Gehlen, a member of the Hitler Youth, a helper on a 20mm quad flak gun, and a part-time gardener during his childhood in Nazi Germany. In 1942, at the tender age of nine, Gregory took the 'Jungvolk' oath and along with other boys of a similar age vowed to give his life for Hitler. This candid and revealing memoir shows a normal boy and a family at war and in its aftermath, determined to do what it took to survive. Fascinating memoir 10/10 The Great War Magazine, September 2016
9781473858206 English 1473858208 It's 1942 and you're a scrawny nine year old German boy who has born the year adolf hitler became chancellor. He's the only German leader you've ever known. Germany has already been at war for almost three years. Your father and all your adult male relatives are in some branch of the Wehrmacht. Your country's being bombed from the west and the invasion of Russia is slowing down. You hear stalingrad mentioned for the first time and there's talk of an enemy bent on destroying your homeland and enslaving its people if the war is lost. And with a group of other boys your age, you repeat the following: In the presence of this blood banner flag which represents our Führer. I swear to devote all my energy and all my strength to the savior of our country. Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him. So help me God. This was the Jungvolk oath. Administered to ten year olds in 1936 and afterward; although after the war began, no one carfd if you were not quite ten or maybe even not quite nine. Hitler's warning to others that. "your child belongs to us already...," had come true. Book jacket., Twelve years of rule by Hitler and the Nazi Party could have made Germany a third world country after the end of the war, and according to some highly placed Allied officials of the time; that would not have been such a bad idea. Whatever treatment the Allies had in mind for the Germans could not have been much worse than the conditions already in existence for them just before and just after the end of the war. The German economy and infrastructure was already a wreck and the inflation continued after the surrender with prices of essentials (if they could be bought) rising to double and triple that of 1943. Only the war industry continued to function reasonably well right up to the end. He has never voted for any political party and does not support one now, saying that the only honest politician he remembers is Adolf Hitler. "Hitler said, 'Give me five years and you won't recognize Germany'. This book is a memoir of Wilhelm Gehlen and his childhood in Nazi Germany, as a Nazi Youth and the awful circumstances which he and his friends and family had to endure during and following the war. Including a handful of recipes and descriptions of the strange and sometimes disgusting food that nevertheless kept people alive, this book sheds light on the truly awful conditions and the common feeling and aim among members of the Hitler Youth - that it was their duty to do everything possible to save the Thousand Year Reich in 1945.REVIEWS These are the memoirs of Wilhelm Reinhard Gehlen, a member of the Hitler Youth, a helper on a 20mm quad flak gun, and a part-time gardener during his childhood in Nazi Germany. In 1942, at the tender age of nine, Gregory took the 'Jungvolk' oath and along with other boys of a similar age vowed to give his life for Hitler. This candid and revealing memoir shows a normal boy and a family at war and in its aftermath, determined to do what it took to survive. Fascinating memoir 10/10 The Great War Magazine, September 2016