Alfons Heck

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Alfons Heck


Born
in Germany
November 03, 1928

Died
April 12, 2005


Alfons Heck was a member of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany, who eventually became an officer in that organization and a fanatical adherent of Nazism.

In the 1970s, having emigrated to the United States via Canada and having lived in the US for several decades, Heck began to write candidly of his youthful military experiences in news articles and two books. Thereafter, he partnered with Jewish Holocaust survivor Helen Waterford, each presenting their differing wartime circumstances before more than 200 audiences, most notably in schools and colleges.

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Parallel Journeys

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The Burden of Hitler's Legacy

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“I found it much harder to accept the harsh reality of the German experience in the Third Reich. We, a civilized, humane people, had allowed ourselves to become indifferent to brutality committed by our own government on our own citizens.”
Alfons Heck, A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

“Nobody except a demented prophet of doom could have foreseen their (Jews) terrible fate. The half million Jews of Germany, less than one percent of our population, knew they faced difficult times with Hitler's ascendance to power, but they were hardly prepared for the onslaught of repressive measures against them. ...many believed he would moderate once he legitimately headed the government. They reasoned since he had gained power by making them the scapegoats, his fury was largely a political pretense to gather votes and would abate under his new respectability. They were dead wrong.”
Alfons Heck, A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

“Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.”
Alfons Heck, A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

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