Americans were given an opportunity today of reading the type of literature that is fed Germany’s 7,000,000 young when Harper and Bros. published an English translation of “The Handbook of the Hitler Youth” under the title “The Nazi Primer.”
The book, translated by Prof. Harwood L. Childs of the Princeton politics department and with a preface by former Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, teaches German boys and girls from 14 to 18 Nazi ideas on race, history and national ambitions. As summarized by Dr. Dodd, it instructs the youth in “how sacred was their Aryan race, how great their ancestors had been and how much of Europe properly belonged to the Fuehrer and his followers.”
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