1988 Interview done in Nuremberg with Max Holtersdorf, Hitler Youth member and Berlin defender

Can you tell me about your early life, and what brought you to the Hitler Youth?

Max: Yes, I was born in the year 1928 in Berlin. My father worked on the railroad and my mother tended the home. I came into the Jungfolk in 1937 at age 9 then became a full-fledged HJ in 1943. It was expected that all boys and girls join a youth organization, and many paren…