Author's Early Life and Hitler Youth Experience

A vivid description of the author's first seventeen years of life encompassing Hitler's twelve-year regime. His Hitler Youth experience is typical for the average German boy of that time. His personal endurances are blended in with reports from the battlefield and the home front.

Some of the Hitler Youth were chosen to be indoctrinated in the regime's elite schools and lived a privileged life of state-sponsored higher education. As war brings more hardships and the nation finds itself defeated and exposed to Soviet barbarism, the Hitler Youth force keeps on fighting with tenacious fanaticism to self-destruction.

Those of them that survived the war felt utterly betrayed and disillusioned. Their fallen comrades being Hitler's Last Victims.