Boy Soldiers

A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

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Buch | Hardcover
2021
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9711-9 (ISBN)

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Boy Soldiers - Helene Munson
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime
At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German children were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage combatants by any country before or since. Hans Dunker was just one of these children. Identified as gifted aged 9, he left his home in South America in 1937 in pursuit of a ‘proper’ education in Nazi Germany. Instead, he and his schoolfriends, lacking adequate training, ammunition and rations, were sent to the Eastern Front when the war was already lost in the spring of 1945. Using her father’s diary and other documents, Helene Munson traces Hans’ journey from a student at Feldafing School to a soldier fighting in Zawada, a village in present-day Czech Republic. What is revealed is an education system so inhumane that until recently, post-war Germany worked hard to keep it a secret. This is Hans’ story, but also the story of a whole generation of German children who silently carried the shame of what they suffered into old age.

With a Chilean-born father and a German mother, Helene grew up in Brazil, Liberia and Germany, spending most of her adult life in New York and Berlin. She has journeyed to over 75 countries, writes short stories in English and German, and inspired by her family history, her Masters’ degree was partly about the impact of armed conflicts on children. She lives in New York.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 50 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Stroud
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7509-9711-7 / 0750997117
ISBN-13 978-0-7509-9711-9 / 9780750997119
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