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Witnesses Of War: Childrens Lives Under The Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt (Hardcover, 2005)

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Author: Nicholas Stargardt ISBN 10: 0224064797. Title: Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. Books will be free of page markings. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.

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Children lay at the heart of the Nazi war. The Nazis murdered Jewish, gypsy and disabled children, so that the pure-bred German child would inherit the new colonial empire being conquered in the East. Yet in the final weeks of the war, the regime would devour its own, calling on the very teenagers it had so lauded to sacrifice themselves on the 'altar of the fatherland', as it sent teenage girls to flak batteries and boys to fight Soviet tanks, or to hunt down escaped concentration camp inmates. lthough the Nazi regime separated children on the basis of race and national identity, the experience of children does not fall into tidy categories. Even in this most murderous of European wars, children were not merely passive victims of genocide, bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies and mass flight. They were also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the SS. ithin days of Germany's own surrender, German children were playing at being Russian