Home / People / Dr. David Yelton Dr. David Yelton Professor of History Education Ph.D., M.A. The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillB.A. Appalachian State University Biography Profesor Yelton’s work focuses on the citizen militia of Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War. Author of two books on the subject and a “Who’s Who among American Teachers,” he teaches courses on the Second World War, Modern Europe, Historical Methods, and Western Civilization. Selected Publications Hitler’s Home Guard: Volkssturmmann Western Front, 1944-45 Hitler’s Volkssturm: The Nazi Militia and the Fall of Germany, 1944-1945
