From: Sinclair Hart (slobak@BCN.NET)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 07:41:07 PST
You are most welcome and alles gutes! If you have access to a library, you might want to look up The Psychopathic God, by the late Prof. Robert Waite. I have his second book, Kaiser and Fuhrer but it doesnt seem to mention the Hitler Jugend movement. Monica Drake wrote: > There were three degrees of Nazi > > then, pre-1939 which was considered hard core, the war period, when some > were > > drafted without much enthusiasm, and then those who really had very > little > > involvement at all, but were still connected. > > Thank you for your responses. I guess my inquiry is linked to another piece > of information I just learned yesterday, which is that my mother has both > her grandparents Ariernachweis's or Ahnenpass's. Both go back 5 generations. > These documents are very hard to find any information about, but I was told > (I don't know how reliable) that most people had to go back 3 generations > and that the closer you were involved with the SS, the more information you > had provide. I am wondering if my Guncle's involvement with the HJ is the > reason for the 5 generations. I know his mother (my grandmother) was very > hostile towards the soldiers and the family pretty much had to keep her in > the house for her own safety, the town's children would be sent to get food, > etc. So, I am trying to put together a complete picture of what was > happening at the time and since my mother was just a toddler at the time, > she can't recall too much. I will keep digging into this and again thank you > for the responses. > > Monica Erdahl Drake > erdahl@idirect.com > Alberta, Canada