Wolfhilde's Hitler Youth Diary is the chronicle of a girl growing up in Munich during the most volatile time in world history. WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE DIARY Initially, the material upset me emotionally in an unexpected way. It took me some time to re-read the diary entries one by one to gain a calmer perspective. Of course, for 60 years or longer I have been aware of the strategies and tactics, the techniques and methods applied and utilized by the Nazi regime to contaminate and poison the minds and souls of ...
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Wolfhilde's Hitler Youth Diary is the chronicle of a girl growing up in Munich during the most volatile time in world history. WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE DIARY Initially, the material upset me emotionally in an unexpected way. It took me some time to re-read the diary entries one by one to gain a calmer perspective. Of course, for 60 years or longer I have been aware of the strategies and tactics, the techniques and methods applied and utilized by the Nazi regime to contaminate and poison the minds and souls of people-beginning with children from the age of 10-with its fierce, all-embracing ideology. Never, before reading Wolfhilde's Hitler Youth Diary, have I been confronted with such massive, monstrous evidence as to what the Nazi regime was doing to us-and how they did it. What is presented here in the diary of a girl from 13 through 21 years of age is a textbook example-concrete evidence-of how they did it. Wolfgang Schleich, 1928- Journalist. Retired since 1990 from Radio Free Europe, where he worked for almost 35 years as a reporter, editor, traveling correspondent and head of the network's Berlin Bureau.
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A number of things impressed me:
1. The complete and steady indoctrination of the Hitler Youth throughout the war.
2. The frequent references to the Russians, English or Americans as the source of evil doings.
3. The way Lulu continuously wove the German culture into her writings, as a result I learned a lot about the German people.
4. The positive caring attitude that she took throughout the seven years of her diary.
5. I was always looking for the time when she changed her point of view as the war took its toll on her, but it was hard to find. Only when she spoke of the occupation beginning in April 1945 did she begin to let on that things might have been done differently. And then mostly in recounting the doubts expressed by others.
6. She never gets into the difficulty she must have had reconciling the facts as they unfolded at the end of the war to her total Hitler Youth experience. I'm sure that is why you never heard about the diary from her directly. Manny was more forthcoming in his comments after coming to America in the early 50's.
7. Her caring nature had to make it a lifelong burden to embrace the world view of Germany as the aggressor in the war.
