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From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers <drogers@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>
List Editor: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers <drogers@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>
Editor's Subject: Re: Query: HJ in Swabia
Author's Subject: Re: Query: HJ in Swabia
Date Written: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:12:53 -0600
Date Posted: Fri, 13 Mar 1997 15:12:53 -0500

Submitted by:   Hunt Tooley
                htooley@austinc.edu

In addition to the sources already mentioned, I would suggest two volumes
of very memoirs by a former HJ leader:

Heck, Alfons, 1928-  The burden of Hitler's legacy /  Frederick,
     CO : Renaissance House Publishers, c1988.  266, [3] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Heck, Alfons, 1928-  A child of Hitler : Germany in the days when
     God wore a swastika /  Frederick, CO : Renaissance House, c1985.

Heck writes these books as a kind of penance for having been a true
believer in his youth.   He builds a great deal of background into his
narrative.  He was from the Mosel valley, and his real HJ military
experience comes from work building and defending the Westwall.  He
actually deals with the war period in some detail in both volumes, as I
recall.  For your project, they are probably worth a look.

Hunt Tooley
Austin College
Sherman, TX

htooley@austinc.edu



>I would appreciate any information about secondary source material dealing
>with the HJ during the war, or any good bibliographies which might be
helpful
>in identifying such sources.  Furthermore, any autobiographical accounts of
>HJ members, especially in southern Germany would also be of help.
>
>Thanks,
>Mark E. Eberhardt
>ZMaak@aol.com

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