Part 1. Documentary about the Hitler Youth and their leader Baldur Benedikt von Schirach with also a few speeches of Adolf Hitler. Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 -- 8 August 1974) was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna. Schirach was born in Berlin, the youngest of four children of theatre director Rittmeister Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (1873 - 1948) and his American wife Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou (1872 - 1944). Through his mother, Schirach descended from two signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence[who?]. English was in fact the first language which he learned at home and he was not able to speak German until the age of five. He had two sisters, Viktoria and Rosalind von Schirach, and a brother, Karl Benedict von Schirach, who committed suicide in 1919 at the age of 19. On 31 March 1932 von Schirach married 19-year-old Henriette Hoffmann, the daughter of Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer and close friend. Hoffmann's professional relationship with Hitler is examined by Otto Strasser, who claims that the sole copyrights for Hitler photographs were granted to Hoffmann in exchange for acquiescence towards Hitler's extra-marital involvement with his daughter, something Hoffmann initially demanded an explanation for in 1926. Von Schirach, says Strasser, was "a young effeminate aristocrat" upon whom Hitler bestowed Henriette and the HJ position ...
Monday, July 11, 2011
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