Boy Soldiers (eBook)

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

Helene Munson (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9908-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: A Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma • child soldiers • Denazification • elite schooling • Fascism • Feldafing • history of education • history of teaching • mini nazis • napolas • nazi children • nazi education • Nazi Germany • nazi germany, nazism, fascism, A Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma, nazi youth, nazi children, youth soldiers, mini nazis, nazi education, napolas, feldafing, the ss, elite schooling, history of teaching, history of education, child soldiers, nsdap, denazification • Nazism • nazi youth • NSDAP • The SS • youth soldiers
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-9908-X / 075099908X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-9908-3 / 9780750999083