THE HITLER YOUTH: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT 1922-1945 - KOCH IN SOUTH AFRICA

1975 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 340 pages in good condition. Some browning spots to page edges and first and last three pages. R50 postage in SA. H. W. Koch, himself a former Hitler Youth brings a unique sensitivity and perspective to the history of one of the most fascinating vehicles for Nazi thought and propaganda. He traces the Hitler Youth movement from its antecedents in nineteenth-century German romanticism and pre-1914 youth culture, through the World War I radicaliztion of German youth, to its ultimate exploitation by the Nazi party.