Hitler's boy soldiers : how my father's generation was trained to kill and sent to die for Germany
(Book)

Revision of: Boy soldiers : a personal story of Nazi elite schooling and its legacy of trauma. Cheltenham : The History Press, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The true, untold story of how Germany's children fought in WWII, through the lens of the author's father and his rediscovered journal"--,Provided by publisher.

During World War II the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German children to fight-- and die-- for Hitler. Munson's father was one of those boy soldiers from the age of nine years. By seventeen he had shot down Allied pilots with antiaircraft artillery; then in the final states of the war he was sent on a suicide mission to the Sudetenland. As Munson retraced his footsteps, she uncovered the lost history of an entire generation brainwashed by the Third Reich, and comes to see her late father as one child forced onto the wrong side of history-- and left to grapple with inherited trauma and the burden of guilt. -- adapted from jacket