Tim Heath - In Hitlers Shadow: Post-War Germany & the Girls of the BDM

From the author of Hitlers Girls comes the revealing true story of the aftermath of WWIItold by the Third Reichs fallen Angels of Death themselves.
In the wake of Germanys unconditional surrender in May 1945 and Japans subsequent surrender later that July, the Allied press proclaimed across the world Victory! War is Over! The truth for many Germans, particularly the teenage girls of the former Bund Deutscher Mdel, was that a new war was just beginning. They were members of the League of German Girlsten to eighteen-years oldwho had been indoctrinated and trained as armed she-devils of the Third Reich.
Drawing on eyewitness accounts, diary entries, and rare interviews with nearly forty members of the BDM, historian Tim Heath reveals the post-war hopes, horrors, and confusion through the eyes of the female wing of Hitler Youth. He recounts their struggle to rebuild their lives destroyed by years of war, and how a country, and these young women, came to terms with the terrible war crimes they were party to. Through these interesting and sometimes horrifying accounts of how these women fared in the dying days of the Reich and in post-war Germany, In Hitlers Shadow sheds light on on one of the darkest times of the twentieth century (Historical Novel Society).