Reading: Mark Cornwall • The Devil’s Wall
Book launch, Gay’s The Word, May 24, London.
Author and historian Mark Cornwall reads from his book on Heinz Rutha, the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space in the 1930s.
Permalink“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.”
