A Child of Hitler
In Alfons'Heck's chilling autobiography, A Child of Hitler, he opens for the reader a unique look into the inner workings of the Nazi regime, not as a mere bystander but as a product of the dictatorship itself.The book begins where most historical accounts of the Third Reich do. It begins with the conditions that existed in Germany after World War I, which allowed for Adolph Hitler to assume a vast amount of power at the time. While these conditions are well documented, Heck's version adds first hand emotional experience to it by delicately interweaving emotion into the events as they occurred. These insights, although narrowed in scope primarily to the impact of just one individual and his family, show how fanaticism which followed Hitler laid much more heavily in the country's youth rather than its adult population. These were the individuals most influenced by Hitler's propaganda and therefore became his greatest asset. Hitler was able to further refine this tool, by using strong discipline instilled as a result of st
rict military training within the Hitler Youth. Hitler further advanced the loyalty and readiness of the youth through unyielding discipline and disbursment of responsibilities throughout the Hitler youth. One of the most amazing aspects within the book remains the amount of responsibility placed on the shoulders of mere children at the time. Instead of faltering among these lofty expectations, according to the author the members of the Hitler Youth seemed to excel under the circumstances to the point of having vital importance to the Third Reich and their pursuit of a "grossduestchland," a greater Germany. The effect that the rally at Nuremberg had on Heck as described by he himself can undoubtedly be applied to thousands of other children becoming the Hitler Youth as a result of the rally at Nuremberg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ " A 10-year-old does not see the world in abstract concept's, but purely in the terms of personal experience. Nothing in my life, including
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Approximate Word count = 693
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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