Baldur von Schirach was the youngest of several defendants tried for war crimes before an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. The former head of Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth organization received a sentence of twenty years' imprisonment for his role as a Gauleiter, or administrative leader, in Vienna after 1940. Born in Berlin in 1907, Schirach was the son of the director of Weimar's court theater who died the year he was born. His mother, Emma, was American by birth. As a young man, Schirach was attracted to anti-Semitism after reading a book by American industrialist Henry Ford titled The International Jew. He met Hitler in 1925, when he was eighteen years old, and moved to Munich the following year to study at its university. There, he became active in the National Socialist (Nazi) German Students' League and headed it after 1929. Impressed by his zeal, Hitler named...