The Nazi Primer: Official Handbook for Schooling the Hitler Youth
| Author | Hitler Youth (Fritz Brennecke, ed.); English translation by Harwood L. Childs |
|---|---|
| Published | 1938 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A 1938 English translation of the official Nazi indoctrination handbook for Hitler Youth leaders, setting out the regime’s race doctrine, history and geopolitics.
The German Handbuch für die Schulungsarbeit in der HJ was translated into English in 1938 (Open Library lists Harper & Brothers, with Harwood L. Childs as translator) so that English readers could see what German youth were being taught. The chapters move from a claimed “unlikeness of men” through the Nazi racial classification of Germans, heredity and so-called race fostering — including justification of sterilisation and “eliminations” — to German history and the regime’s view of living space and other peoples.
What it is: Nazi propaganda: a primary source for historians of the regime, translated for study, not a work of scholarship. Its content is racist and eugenicist. Copy from a shadow library.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
109 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.