A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

by Alfons Heck

Overview

In this starkly candid account of one boy's indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of Nazism that has been little recorded. This autobiographical account is a rare glimpse at World War II from a German boy's viewpoint.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013255432
Publisher:	American Traveler Press
Publication date:	10/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Alfons Heck (3 November 1928 - 12 April 2005) was born in the Rhineland. From 1938 through the end of World War II, he was a member of Hitler Youth, eventually becoming a Hitler Youth Officer and a fanatical adherent of Nazism’s ideologies. Decades later, after emigrating to the United States via Canada, Heck wrote candidly of his youthful military experiences in news articles and two books. Thereafter, he partnered with Jewish Holocaust survivor Helen Waterford, each presenting their differing wartime circumstances before more than 200 audiences, most notably in schools and colleges.