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The devil's wall : the nationalist youth mission of Heinz Rutha / Mark Cornwall.
- Title
- The devil's wall : the nationalist youth mission of Heinz Rutha / Mark Cornwall.
- Author
- Cornwall, Mark.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- 352 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a mission to try to restore German influence across the region. This book tells the story of Heinz Rutha, the pioneer of a youth movement which promoted male bonding as part of its strategy to reassert German dominance over the Czechs.
- Alternative Title
- Nationalist youth mission of Heinz Rutha
- Subject
- Rutha, Heinrich, 1897-1937
- Henlein, Konrad, 1898-1945
- Sudetendeutsche Partei
- Geschichte 1918-1938
- 1900-1999
- Youth movements > Czech Republic > Sudetenland > History > 20th century
- Nationalism > Czech Republic > Sudentenland > History > 20th century
- Germans > Czech Republic > Sudetenland > Biography
- Gays > Czech Republic > Sudetenland > Biography
- Sudetenland (Czech Republic) > Politics and government > 20th century
- Czechoslovakia > History > 1918-1938
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction a forgotten life -- The devil's wall -- A German Bohemian education -- The sacrifice -- Rebirth -- The militant youth mission -- Eros -- A leap into ice-cold water -- Sudeten foreign minister -- Premonition of disaster -- The cell -- Epilogue Rutha's ghost -- Place names in German and Czech.
- ISBN
- 9780674046160
- LCCN
- ^^2011045268
- OCLC
- 758383434
- SCSB-10845678
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library