Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

New York, NY: Scholastic, 2005. Reprint. Later printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 176 p. Illustrations. Time Line of Hitler Youth. Author's Note; Quote Sources. Bibliography. Index. In her first full-length nonfiction title since winning the Robert F. Sibert Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up...But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world."--Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members. This was a Newberry Honor Book and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book From Wikipedia: "Susan Campbell Bartoletti (born 1958) is an American writer of children's literature. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. Susan started as an English teacher and inspired many students before deciding to pursue writing in earnest. She sold her first short story in 1989. Three years later in 1992 she published her first picture book, Silver at Night. She held a rigid routine, awaking early in the morning in order to write before she left to teach. In 1997 she turned to writing full time. Susan has since returned to inspiring future writers. She teaches writing classes at a number of MA and MFA programs, among them Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Additionally she leads workshops offered through the Highlights Foundation. Now, she lives at Moscow, Pennsylvania." Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Honor book stickers on front cover. Cover has small tear at bottom of front flap.

Keywords: Hitler Youth, Nazi, Alfons Heck, Concentration Camps, Helmuth Hubener, Gestapo, Anti-Semitism, Henry Metelmann, Sophie Scholl, Schnibbe, De-Nazification

ISBN: 9780439353793

[Book #68302]

Price: $25.00