Hitler made the eighteen-year-old Baldur von Schirach the offer he
was hoping for, telling him the party needed young men like him.
The young man snapped up Hitler's invitation and enjoyed a rapid
rise through the ranks of the National Socialist Party, marrying
Henriette Hoffmann, the daughter of Hitler's personal photographer
Heinrich Hoffmann. In 1930 he was appointed "Reich" youth leader,
and as Hitler's loyal servant he harnessed the Hitler Youth for the
'brown revolution'. He dreamt of a fascist Europe under German
leadership and as Gauleiter of Vienna he had the city's Jewish
population deported to the death camps while enriching himself with
looted Jewish art collections. But his independence of mind and
artistic ideals led to tensions between Berlin and Vienna. In 1946,
Baldur von Schirach stood trial at Nuremberg, where he offered a
crafty defence, confessing his role in the rise of National
Socialist ideology and attacking Adolf Hitler but denying
involvement in the murder of Jews. As a result, he escaped
execution and was sentenced to twenty years in prison for crimes
against humanity. In the 1960s, he emerged from Spandau prison to
great media attention, but he would later die in obscurity. In this
critical biography, Oliver Rathkolb uses previously untapped
archive material to examine a controversial figure who used his
keen media savvy to paint a favourable picture of himself after the
war. The book traces how this key figure in the National Socialist
propaganda machine was shaped by the German political milieu -
before going on to shape German youth.
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