Author: Schirach, Baldur von [1907-1974]
Title: Das Lied der Getreuen : Verse ungenannter österreichischer Hitler-Jugend aus den Jahren der Verfolgung 1933-37..,.
Description: Leipzig, Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, (1938). 101.-Tausend, orig. wrappers. 19x12cm, 39 pages. 101.- 120. Tausend.. Some wear. Several lightly-pencilled marginal marks. Good. ¶ Hitler Youth poetry. Full title reads: "Das Lied der Getreuen : Verse ungenannter ö sterreichischer Hitler-Jugend aus den Jahren der Verfolgung 1933-37 / herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Baldur von Schirach". ["Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi German politician who is best known for his role as the Nazi Party national youth leader and head of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. He later served as Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ('Reich Governor) of Vienna. After World War II, he was convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison....On 31 March 1932 Schirach married the 19-year- old Henriette Hoffmann, the daughter of Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer and sometime friend. Schirach's family was vehemently opposed to this marriage, but Hitler insisted.... Through this relationship, Schirach became part of Hitler's inner circle...."- wikipedia].

Keywords: Germany 1933-1945, Nazi, National Socialist, Political History, Hitler Youth, German Poetry, , ,