The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Cornwall Mark
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Cornwall Mark Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the…
Specifikacia The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Cornwall Mark
The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Cornwall Mark
Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil's Wall was evidence of rising ethnic tensions.
The resulting scandal Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure in his day, who was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space.Through a narrative that unravels the threads of Rutha's own repressed sexuality, Cornwall shows how Czech authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as sexual deviance and in 1937 charged him with corrupting adolescents.