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    Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles
    Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles
    Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles
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    Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles

    By Tim Heath

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    The “frank, tragic, bittersweet, brutal, emotional” true story of the Third Reich’s so-called she-devils of the League of German Girls (Gerry Van Tonder, author of Berlin Blockade).
     
    They were ten to eighteen years old: German girls who volunteered for the war effort, and were indoctrinated into the Nazi youth organizations, Jungmädelbund and Bund Deutcscher Mädel. At first they were schooled in a very narrow education: how to cook, clean, excel at sports, birth babies, and raise them. But when Hitler called, they were trained, militarized, and exploited for the ultimate goal of the Third Reich.
     
    From the prosperous beginnings of the League of German Girls in 1933 to the cataclysmic defeat of 1945, Hitler’s Girls is an insightful, disturbing, and revealing exploration of their specific roles: what was expected of them, and how they delivered, as defined by the Nazi state. Were they unwitting pawns or willing accessories to genocide? Historian Tim Heath searches for the answers and provides a definitive voice for this unique, and until now, unheard generation of German females.
     
    “An essential account of the women who served Hitler during his years of power. Stunning photographs but a chilling narrative, in view of what they were required to do.” —Books Monthly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 30, 2017
    ISBN9781526705341
    Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles
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    Tim Heath

    Born in to a military family, Tim Heath’s interest in history led him to research the air war of the Second World War, focussing on the German Luftwaffe and writing extensively for The Armourer Magazine. During the course of his research he has worked closely with the German War Graves Commission at Kassel, Germany, and met with German families and veterans alike.

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      I am surprised this book was published in its current form. It contains much good information, but is marred by errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation, and a rambling narrative that veered precariously off topic at times.
    • 3/5
      Some interesting personal accounts from the time, but on of the wider picture of German society during the inter-war years the author should have researched more. Too many assumptions made, no mention of the impact of WW1 and the liberal Weimar republic on sexual attitudes. It was ok but lazily written in places.

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