Gerhard Dabel

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Gerhard Dabel , also Gerd Dabel , (born December 16, 1916 in Stettin , † May 7, 1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer .

Life

During the time of National Socialism he was the head of the Hitler Youth and responsible employee - in the last weeks of the war he was even head of the Kinderlandverschickung department of the Reich Youth Leadership. After the end of the war, many of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation .

In 1981 Dabel published a collective work on the extended Kinderlandverschickung , which contains numerous documents and memories from former camp participants. For a long time, this book shaped the image of Kinderlandverschickung as a carefree youth. Publications by specialist historians criticize Dabel's interpretation of the facts and documents, which make him and other representatives of the KLV department appear in a favorable light. Jost Hermand accuses the book of a “fasciating euphemism, if not glorification of the KLV experience”.

Gerhard Dabel died on May 7, 1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau and was buried in the main cemetery there.

Works (selection)

  • Boys' stories , Leipzig, Schmidt & Spring, 1935
  • Comrades of the 100 tents , Berlin, Young Generation, 1936
  • The Pirates of Moen , Berlin, Young Generation, 1940
  • The order of the day , Berlin, Young Generation, 1941
  • With motorcycle and carabiner. Ride and fight of a squadron of motorcyclists , Berlin, Young Generation, 1941
  • Big City Boys, Berlin, Young Generation, 1942
  • The Avengers of the Courts , Berlin, Young Generation, 1942
  • KLV warehouse toy factory , Berlin 1942 (with Gretel Seelig)
  • The reading hour of the KLV camp , Berlin 1942 (with Gretel Seelig), ed. from the Reich Youth Leadership of the NSDAP, Kinderlandverschickung office
  • KLV. The extended Kinder-Land-Versand. KLV camp 1940–1945. Documentation on the "greatest sociological attempt of all time" , Freiburg im Breisgau 1981, ISBN 3-921340-60-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 477 restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Eva Gehrken: National Socialist Education in the Camps of the Extended Kinderland Displacement 1940 to 1945. Gifhorn 1997, ISSN  0936-613X (diss.), P. 29 / Pallas
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  4. ↑ Eva Gehrken: National Socialist Education ... p. 29 / similar to Gerhard Kock: "The Führer cares for our children" - The Kinderlandverschickung in the Second World War. Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-74663-4 (diss.)
  5. ↑ Jost Hermand: As Pimpf in Poland - Extended Kinderlandverschickung 1940-1945. Frankfurt / M. 1993, ISBN 3-596-11321-0 , p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Dabel, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dabel, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1984
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau