Through innocent eyes : the chosen girls of the Hitler youth

The National Socialistic upbringing in the League of German Girls uses paramilitary like disciplinary measures to build their loyalty and moral character. Coupled with neo-pagan rituals, songs, and folklore, __Through Innocent Eyes__ captures the self-actualization of ten-year-old Gertrude as she progresses from childhood and living in poverty to adolescence and becoming “one” with her country. By age fourteen, Gertrude is chosen for Country Service Camp, called “Landjahr.” Here, she will receive the very best rural education, for the Reich only wants the healthiest and strongest girls. In 1941, there are twenty-six thousand girls in Landjahr, and Gertrude Kerschner is one of them. “This is the most authentic book I have read about the girls in the Hitler Youth. You capture the essence in detail.” ~Irmgard M. Nagengast “To be alive today and see a book written about our time in Landjahr Lager Seidorf brings back wonderful memories.” ~ Eleanor (Nelly) Mohler ~ Landjahr Mädel “What a beautiful tribute to your mother. I will always remember our time together in Landjahr as if it were yesterday.” ~ Steffi Pucks ~ Landjahr Mädel “Your book gives an intimate accounting of the Hitler Youth girls as seen through a child’s eyes. This book takes me right back in time.” ~ Ellie Musial ~ Landjahr Mädel Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler. "The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siecle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively. 151 photographs; 8 maps "Ian Kershaw's 'Hilter'--so eloquent in style, so compelling in it narration, and so formidable in its research that it is one of the finest biographies of the last half of the twentieth century--birngs us closer than ever to this bizarre misfit's ascent from the Viennese poorhouse to his tyrannical rule over Germany and much of Europe. Drawing on previously untapped sources and extensive research, Kershaw vividly re-creates the deeply unstable environment that made hitler's rise possible: the toxic anti-Semitism of prewar on the Right and the Left, the hysteria that greeted Hilter when he seized power, and the brutal attacks by his storm troopers onJews and other Nazi enemies."--Inside cover

From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Ian Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

A single-volume edition of a classic biographical work traces Hitler's life and addresses key questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the factors that enabled European society to permit his atrocities Abridgement of: - [Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris](/works/OL1924194W) - [Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis](/works/OL1924193W)