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Between 1933 and 1945, more than three million children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth paramilitary camps to be """"toughened up"""" and taught how to be obedient Germans. Separated from their families, these children often endured abuse by the adults in charge. This mass phenomenon that affected a whole generation of Germans remains almost undocumented. In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period. Hermand also gives background into the camp's creation and development.

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It is his unflinching honesty that makes Hermand's slim memoir valuable. --Publishers Weekly

It is his unflinching honesty that makes Hermand's slim memoir valuable. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>

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JOST HERMAND was born in Kassel, Germany in 1930. The William F. Vilas Research Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, he has also taught at Harvard University, the University of Texas, University of Berlin, and six other German universities. He has written or edited twelve books. MARGOT BETTAUER DEMBO, an editor with the American Museum of Natural History, is the translator of Armin and Renate Schmid's Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape, also published by Northwestern University Press.

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