Re: Hitler Youth in Austria

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


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