From Hitler Youth To American Hero

Author : Wolfgang Goettig
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522729877
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Hitler Youth to American Hero written by Wolfgang Goettig and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because not much was known of my growing up years in Germany and my time in the German and U.S. Military, my number three daughter Jean had suggested a few years ago that I write about some of my experiences. I guess I have procrastinated long enough and it is time for me to sit down, look back and try to remember what happened so long ago. Originally, I thought I could fill just a few pages, never realizing that in the end it would add up to over 100 pages. I hope that reading about my life will not bore you too much.

Author : Herb Flemming
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449735819
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Hitler Youth to American Soldier written by Herb Flemming and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would like to thank Timothy King, who actually wrote my story, and his wife Tammy, who transcribed most of our interview tapes, for all their labor in putting this work together"--Page v.

Author : Rick Holz
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780732268169
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Young to Be a Hero written by Rick Holz and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of a Young Soldier in Hitler's Wehrmacht'. 'My story is not about the rise and fall of the Third Reich. My story is about me. I am neither famous nor infamous, neither a dazzling success nor a dismal failure. I am a plain and ordinary human being who was too young to be a hero.' Ollie Weiss, the author's name for himself, was born in 1924 in a small town in Germany. When his father dies on the first day of school, Ollie feels deserted in an unfair, harsh world. He joins the Hitler Youth at ten and begins to greet his mother with 'Heil Hitler' instead of 'Good morning'.When Ollie signs up for the infantry he is willing to die for his beloved Fuhrer, the saviour of his Fatherland. But his years of brainwashing quickly wear off as he reaches the brink of insanity defending a corridor west of Stalingrad. Ollie's god has betrayed him and his world is turned upside down. Too Young to be a Hero is an extraordinary true story of survival, moral conflict and of heartache.

Author : Monica Porter
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526764318
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Against Hitler written by Monica Porter and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real life stories of the children and teenagers who went further and actually stood up to the Nazis. Here, for the first time, Monica Porter gathers together their stories from many corners of occupied Europe, showing how in a variety of audacious and inventive ways children as young as six resisted the Nazi menace, risking and sometimes even sacrificing their brief lives in the process: a heroism that until now has largely gone unsung. These courageous youngsters came from all classes and backgrounds. There were high school drop-outs and social misfits, brainy bookworms, the children of farmers and factory workers. Some lost their entire families to the war, yet fought on alone. Often more adept and fearless at resistance than adults, they exuded an air of guilessness and could slip more easily under the Nazi radar. But as nets tightened, many were captured, tortured or imprisoned, some paying the highest price – a life cut short by execution before they had even turned eighteen. These children were motivated by different ideals; patriotism, political conviction, their Christian beliefs, or revulsion at the brutality of the Third Reich. But what united them was their determination to strike back at an enemy which had deprived them of their freedom, their dignity - and their childhood.

Author : Catrine Clay
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144646878X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trautmann's Journey written by Catrine Clay and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR How did one man go from Nazi Youth indoctrination to English footballing icon? Bert Trautmann is a football legend. He is famed as the Manchester City goalkeeper who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup final and played on. But his early life was no less extraordinary. He grew up in Nazi Germany, where first he was indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, before fighting in World War Two in France and on the Eastern Front. In 1945 he was captured and sent to a British POW camp where, for the first time, he understood that there could be a better way of life. He embraced England as his new home and before long became an English football hero. This is his story. 'A gripping story of an unlikely redemption through football' Sunday Times 'He was the best goalkeeper I ever played against. We always said, don't look into the goal when you're trying to score against Bert. Because if you do, he'll see your eyes and read your thoughts.' Bobby Charlton

Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338088378
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus) written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups."I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members.

Author : Alfred P. Wehner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Hitler Youth to U.S. Citizenship written by Alfred P. Wehner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael H. Kater
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039351
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler Youth written by Michael H. Kater and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany. Determining that by age ten children’s minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between the ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The result was a potent tool for bending young minds and hearts to the will of Adolf Hitler. Baldur von Schirach headed a strict chain of command whose goal was to shift the adolescents’ sense of obedience from home and school to the racially defined Volk and the Third Reich. Luring boys and girls into Hitler Youth ranks by offering them status, uniforms, and weekend hikes, the Nazis turned campgrounds into premilitary training sites, air guns into machine guns, sing-alongs into marching drills, instruction into indoctrination, and children into Nazis. A few resisted for personal or political reasons, but the overwhelming majority enlisted. Drawing on original reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Michael H. Kater traces the history of the Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversion, and the subsequent fate of young recruits. Millions of Hitler Youth joined the armed forces; thousands gleefully participated in the subjugation of foreign peoples and the obliteration of “racial aliens.” Although young, they committed crimes against humanity for which they cannot escape judgment. Their story stands as a harsh reminder of the moral bankruptcy of regimes that make children complicit in crimes of the state.

Author : Ottomar Rudolf
Publisher : First Books
ISBN 13 : 159299735X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Remember written by Ottomar Rudolf and published by First Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1929 in Germany, Ottomar Rudolf lived during World War II in Ulm on the Danube. Towards the end of the war he was inducted into the Wehrmacht. He served in the Panzer Corps in 1945 and was sent to the eastern front. He returned to Ulm after being wounded. When the war ended Ulm was in the American sector of occupation. Relatives sponsored him to come to the United States. Arriving in New York in 1948, he attended Manhattan College in New York City and received a BA in Philosophy. His first teaching position was at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the Korean War he was drafted into the Signal Corps. While serving, he became an American citizen. After Korea he was sent to Heidelberg, Germany, to finish his tour of duty. At the University of Heidelberg he studied Philosophy and German Literature and upon his return to the United States he continued those studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He subsequently received appointments as assistant professor of German at Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges in Pennsylvania. In 1959 he earned his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963 he moved to Portland, Oregon to take the position of Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, where he taught until his retirement in 1998 as Professor Emeritus. Professor Rudolf was also Visiting Professor at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. A published scholar and frequent lecturer on German culture and history, Professor Rudolf was awarded the Verdienstkreuz Erster Klasse, Officer's Cross, by the President of Germany in 1989. He lives in Portland with his wife Catherine.

Author : Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338214314
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Dared written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times , to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.