Beth H. (suburbanalien) reviewed on + 63 more book reviews
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Aside from being a very interesting collection of stories from those that lived it, this is the blueprint for how to turn an entire generation into fanatical, fearless, utterly devoted warriors. Unless you hear it from the beginning as it progresses, you would never understand how children could be so devoted to a cause that they would run alone across a battlefield against tanks, carrying a bomb, and hold the bomb against the enemy tank with their bare hands until it detonated. It started with youth groups, team sports, camping trips with campfire songs, and progressed to military drills, ratting on their parents, replacing references to God with references to Hitler, patrolling neighborhoods during air raids, then front-line battle. I've heard shorter stories, even recognized some of the names in the book, and had heard some about the resistance groups like The White Rose, but I never understood the full development of this movement until I heard this book. What would seem incomprehensible makes so much more sense once you understand the step-by-step process that the goverment instituted which then affected and victimized an entire generation.
