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16%OFFMark Cornwall - The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha - 9780674046160 - V9780674046160
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The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha

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Description for The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Hardback. Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall's biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 25 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 716.

Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil’s Wall was evidence of rising ethnic tensions. In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure in his day, who was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674046160
SKU
V9780674046160
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About Mark Cornwall
Mark Cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton.

Reviews for The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha
To get right to the point: The Devil’s Wall is without doubt one of the most interesting and innovative books on German–Czech history published in recent years.
Volker Zimmerman
Journal of Modern History
Brilliantly recreates an intellectual universe in which central Europeans attempted to make sense of homosocial and homosexual relations after World War I… No one, ... Read more

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