Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany

Helene Munson resurrects her father's WWII journals and embarks on a meticulous investigation, exposing how the Nazis trained 300,000 impressionable children as soldiers. In 1937, Munson's father, Hans, was enrolled in an elite German school whose students were destined to take leadership roles in the Reich. At fifteen, he was drafted as an antiaircraft gunner-along with the rest of the Hitler Youth-and assigned to an SS unit. As the war was being lost, Hans and his schoolmates were ordered...