Professor Kamenetsky's book affects the reader beyond its declared intention of demonstrating how the Nazis used censorship and "völkisch ideology" to teach children to "internalize National Socialist ideology and defend it enthusiastically" (xii). Her study overwhelms the reader with the picture of what must surely have been a censor's utopia, for she reveals the two-fold dream of censors in operation: aggression against everything that does not fit the censor's view and imposition of a predetermined value system by the censor whose aggression has been successful. The personal and developmental needs of the child and young adult were, of course, totally disregarded under ideological Gleichschaltung. Kamenetsky covers all aspects of her subject, from origin to publishing trends, but all her discussions are variables of those key terms—censorship and mythmaking.