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Hitler Youth
Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
By Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-43935-379-3
- Publisher
- Scholastic
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2005
Gr 5-8 Hitler's plans for the future of Germany relied significantly on its young people, and this excellent history shows how he attempted to carry out his mission with the establishment of the Hitler Youth, or "Hitlerjugend", in 1926. With a focus on the years between 1933 and the end of the war in 1945, Bartoletti explains the roles that millions of boys and girls unwittingly played in the horrors of the Third Reich. The book is structured around 12 young ind...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2005
While many books for the young have chronicled the experiences of Hitler's victims, far fewer have looked at the impact of Nazi ideology on those who subscribed to it. As Bartoletti writes in the preface to this provocative account, "Hitler counted on Germany's boys and girls." Bartoletti's tracing of the Hitler Youth movement particularizes the events of Nazi Germany from rise to fall and is given further specificity by her recurring attention throughout to several individual young people, most persistently Alfons Heck and Hans and Sophie Schol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
