"Jungvolk" is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency. Gehlen provides an intimate glimpse of life inside Hitler's wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare.
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"Jungvolk" is the wartime memoir of a boy named Will, who happened to be the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency. Gehlen provides an intimate glimpse of life inside Hitler's wartime Reich that is both fascinating and rare.
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Very good in d/w. The Third Reich-General The wartime memoir of the nephew of the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. The author, only 10 years old when the war began, became a helper at the local Luftwaffe flak battery, fetching ammunition. His town was repeatedly bombed and he often had to help with the wreckage or to pull survivors from basements. He witnessed many deaths but his flak battery continued firing until US tanks were almost on top of the position. A glimpse of life behind the front lines, as seen through the eyes of a child. UL-XXXXXX. 326pp illustrations.
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Very Good. Unused/new. Bumps to cover edges. Scratches/marks to dustjacket & creases/scuffs to edges. Marks to textblock edges. Text is in excellent condition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white.
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Very Good. New/unused condition with small scuffs and scratches to the dust jacket. The content is in new condition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white.
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New in New dust jacket. 1932033874. Hard cover is grey boards with black spine, gold lettering on spine. DJ in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 29 b/w photographs. 20 chapters and an epilogue. "It might seem amazing today that mere children during the Nazi era in Germany were required to do their part for "Fuhrer, Volk, and Vaterland", but that is exactly what happened during the cataclysm of the Third Reich. Their lessons in school apart from a basic curriculum, revolved aoround aircraft ID, scrap and herb collecting, parades and inspections messenger dury and anti-aircraft defense." In this book Gehlen, born in 1933 the year Hitler came to power, looks back on his unique childhood, provides an intimate glimpse of the chaos, horror and, strangely enough, black humour of life just behind the front lines of Germany in World War II. As seen through the eyes of a child who never knew normality, but was expert in aircraft identification and bomb weights.; B&W Photographs; 9.10 X 6 X 1.20 inches; ix, 326 pages.
