Vocabulary

boycott warmonger Great War Brownshirt Karl May Communists (see below) Nazis chancellor Adolf Hitler Treaty of Versailles Storm Trooper (SA) Fatherland Weimar Republic Star of David SS Extraordinary Radio Law Paul von Hindenburg Franklin D. Roosevelt Heinrich Mann Hitler Youth U-boat propaganda blitzkrieg defeatist black market Heinrich Mann ration plutocracy idealism denounce underground inflation swastika doctrine dissent inflammatory incite It took me a good two years to research //Hitler Youth//. And while I do not speak German, as I researched, I managed to learn enough words to work my way through the German archives and to loosely translate. For publication purposes, I worked with several wonderful translators. Most of the following German words and terms in this novel are defined within the text. Look for textual clues to define the following words. You can find German pronunciation guides on the Internet. Please note that the page numbers are from the hardcover version of this novel. Here is a basic pronunciation guide. (Note: Much of German is pronounced the same as English, but there are some German sounds that are different. Some require you to form your mouth in ways unfamiliar to English.) CH -- This sound is made by placing your mouth in position to pronounce the letter "Y" and whispering the word "he". (Depending on which region you are from, this can also be pronounced in a more guttural way - by making the sound you make when clearing your throat as though there is a popcorn kernel caught there.) For the **ü** sound, form your lips as though you are going to whistle and then say a long e sound
 * Vocabulary and Terms to Know**
 * German Words to Know**

F=V V=F S=Z Sch=Sh Z=TS J=Y Pf= pf R- the letter R is often rolled Final E is pronounced "eh" When two vowels are together, pronounce the second one. (I always remind myself that the second vowel does the talking.) Oma- OH-mah (9) Opa (9)OH-pa Guten Tag (12) GOO-t'n TAHG Reich (12) Rych (rhymes with Pie) Heil (12) Hile (rhymes with Kyle) Jungvolk (13) YOONG-fohlk Judenfrei (13) YOOD'N-fry Mutti (4) MOO-tee kuchen (18) KOO-chen ) Bitte (18) BI-teh (short i) Ach, nay (18) ACH, nay ) Nein (18) NINE verboten (18) FER-bow-ten Reichspost (19) Rychs-pohst Herr (28) HAIR pfennig (30) PFEH-nig Juden Laden (31) YOO-d'n LAH-d'n Rottenführer (39) RAH-ten-fyeh-rer Volksempünger (39) FOLK-sem-pung-air Lebensraum (40) LAY-b'n-zrahwm Oberbau (41) O-ber-bow Ach, ja (52) ACH Kameradschsft (53) KAH-mair-rahd-shahft HJ-Streifendienst (56) SHTRY-f'n-deenst Gestapo (56) GEH-shtah-po Luftwaffe (83) LOOFT-vaff-eh Schutzhaftgefangener (100) SHUTZ-haft-geh-fahng'n-ner Geist und Tat (108) GYST UNT TAHT Achtung (114) ACH-toong