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In Hitler s Shadow has no equal In Hitler s Shadow Post War Germany u0026 the Girls of the BDMA look at the lives of young women growing up in Nazi Germany and surviving the fall of the Third Reich and the subsequent occupation of the Allies In some instances it is a gruesome read and sickening and not for the faint at heart Recommended for anyone interested in the subject matter 9781526720016 Viewpoint seldom read. Book In Hitler's shadowrocket Interesting book with viewpoints not widely read An unfortunate part of history The evils of Nazism and its pervasiveness into common German life is difficult to understand and even difficult to read The ability of one man to deceive a nation should serve as a warning to us all Recommended reading 4 stars only because the flow was a little choppy 9781526720016 This is a very important book because it documents the suffering of every day Germans specifically the teenage girls who were swept into the toxic Nazi war machine Here the reader understands how simple folks were manipulated into participating in Nazism When you put it in the context of young women who were just developing into adulthood is easy to understand how they could be molded into tools for the regime Told by girls who were interviewed for this book it begins slowly with stories of girls escaping Berlin at the end of the war and unfolds into a series of stories that document the horrors they were subjected through the war and by the invading Soviets Very sobering indeed 9781526720016 In Hitler s Shadow Post War Germany and the Girls of the BDM by Tim Heath is the continuation of the stories the author had detailed from personal interviews in Hitler s Girls Doves Amongst Eagles that concluded with the Nazi unconditional surrender ending World War II in Europe The names are familiar ones from the earlier book that detailed how they became involved in the Hitler Youth organizations Some had taken up arms as the fighting intensified when the Russians closed in on Berlin and began the block by block clearing of the Germans without regard to whether they were unarmed civilians or trained fighters There were so many examples of the brutal treatment of the Germans by the Russians as a revenge for what the Nazis had done when they invaded to the east including beatings.

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In the wake of Germany s unconditional surrender in May 1945 and Japan s subsequent surrender later that July across the world the Allied press proclaimed Victory War is Over The truth for many Germans particularly girls of the former Bund Deutscher Madel was that a new war was just beginning In Hitler s Shadow conveys the hopes the horrors and the aftermath of the Second World War in the form of eye witness testimonies diary entries and interviews Through the eyes of the BDM girls it recounts the struggle to rebuild lives destroyed by years of war and how a country came to terms with terrible war crimes committed in its name The result is powerful sad harrowing humorous and shocking In the realms of the study of female Hitler Youth organizations in Nazi Germany rapes torture and murders As this violent frenzy began to wind down and especially when the western allies arrived the former members of the girls Hitler youth organization Bund Deutscher Madel particularly were screened and then unless there was a known crime that they should be held for were released and allowed to find their way back to whatever is left of their homes and families As with the earlier book the author continued the personal interviews to find out what happened to them The stories span the entire gamut from realizing how they were brainwashed to still believing in National Socialism from rejoining their families to finding their entire families are dead from a life of eventual happiness to continued tough times Some actually ended up marrying former enemies and moving to England France and America While many of these stories are sad and make you feel sympathy it is a difficult situation depending on how much they bought into National Socialism and supported it At a minimum this author has written about a subject from a viewpoint that has not really been explored previously 9781526720016

In Hitler's Shadow: Post-War Germany \u0026 the Girls of the BDM By Tim Heath

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Born in to a military family Tim Heath s interest in history led him to research the air war of the Second World War focussing on the German Luftwaffe and writing extensively for The Armourer Magazine During the course of his research he has worked closely with the German War Graves Commission at Kassel Germany and met with German families and veterans alike Born out of this work Hitlers Girls is his first book He lives in Evesham Worcestershire with his partner Paula Born in to a military family Tim Heath s interest in history led him to research the air war of the Second World War focussing on the German Luftwaffe and writing extensively for The Armourer Magazine During the course of his research he has worked closely with the German War Graves Commission at Kassel Germany and met with German families and veterans alike Born out of this work Hitler s Girls is his first book He lives in Evesham Worcestershire with his partner Paula site_link.