In this lecture, Professor Ostoyich will present the experiences of \u201cHildegard Weber,\u201d a thoroughly-indoctrinated member of the League of German Girls (the female division of the Hitler Youth), who chronicled her war-time experiences in diaries. Her diaries provide an unfiltered view of what Adolf Hitler, National Socialism, and the war meant to her.\u00a0 With each passing year, Hildegard increasingly filled her diary with horrific accounts of Allied bombing raids and lists of the city\u2019s dead. With the end approaching in April 1945, she embraced the impending defeat.\u00a0 She also chronicled the first year of the post-war occupation.\u00a0 Her assessments of the Allied soldiers and her fellow countrymen are frank and scathing.\u00a0 She described how the Allied soldiers kept Nazis as prisoners in her former school and how her fellow Germans turned on each other and disassociated\u00a0 themselves from National\u00a0 Socialism.\u00a0 By investigating the impact of the Third Reich\u00a0 on ordinary people such as Hildegard, we can truly start to discern the lessons of this dark history.\u00a0
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