{"product_id":"hitlers-boy-soldiers-how-my-fathers-generation-was-trained-to-kill-and-sent-to-die-for-germany-9781615198597","title":"Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelene Munson resurrects her father's WWII journals and embarks on a meticulous investigation, exposing how the Nazis trained 300,000 impressionable children as soldiers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1937 Munson's father, Hans, was enrolled in an elite German school whose students were destined to take leadership roles in the Reich. At fifteen he was drafted as an antiaircraft gunner--along with the rest of the Hitler Youth--and assigned to an SS unit. As the war was being lost, Hans and his schoolmates were ordered to the front lines. Few returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA personal lens into a nation's shameful past, \u003ci\u003eHitler's Boy Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e documents the history of the largest army of child soldiers in recent memory. Munson explores the lifelong effects on brainwashed children coerced to join a party they didn't understand. Both a modern narrative and an important historical contribution, Hitler's Boy Soldiers grapples with inherited trauma, the nature of being victim or perpetrator, and the burden of guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781615198597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Helene Munson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41993219080373,"sku":"9781615198597","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_56bd0861-fb84-4613-98ab-1b01935dfd55.jpg?v=1648524703","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hitlers-boy-soldiers-how-my-fathers-generation-was-trained-to-kill-and-sent-to-die-for-germany-9781615198597","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}