NOTES

Chapter 1

* Children, Cooking, Church

Chapter 4

* The League of German Girls, the girls’ wing of the Hitler Youth.

Chapter 23

* Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, translated by Ralph Mannheim, Houghton Mifflin, Mariner Books, New York, 1999, pp. 304-5.

** ibid., p.150.

Chapter 25

* The name used by the Germans for Russian soldiers.

Chapter 26

* The name given to the people’s militia launched in Germany in 1944 and composed mainly of very young, or very old, soldiers.