Hitler Youth. Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Scholastic
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 176 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780439353793