Biographical Summary:

• father German theater director -- mother American
• related through mother to two signers of the American Declaration of Independence
• joined Nazi Party in 1925 at the age of eighteen
• youth and student organizer for the Nazis
• 1929 Leader of Nazi Students Union
• 1931 Youth Leader
• 1933 Head of the Hitler Youth
• SA Gruppenfuhrer (General)
• 1940 military service in France
• becomes gradually disillusioned with Hitler's war policy
• relieved of command of the Hitler Youth
• 1940-1945 Gauleiter of Vienna
• mistrusted by Hitler 1940-1945
• seventh highest IQ score at Nuremberg: 130 (tied with Frank and Fritzsche)
• 1946-1966 Spandau Prison
• retired author