Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach

Baldur von Schirach, Gauleiter of Vienna and Reich Youth Leader.  Schirach on the Hitler Youth, “The German boy can make his own when he follows the directions of the Führer, who has assigned him the task ‘to be slim and slender, quick like a greyhound, tough like leather and hard like Krupp’s steel.”  Von Schirach was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at Nürnberg in 1946; he was released in 1966 and died on August 8, 1974 at Kröv an der Mosel.