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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Age 12+
Grade 7-9

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Paperback (Scholastic Nonfiction March 26, 2019) , Reprint edition
A Newbery and Sibert Honor Book! A riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth. A PB edition in an accessible new novel-sized reformat for Scholastic Focus!
In this Newbery Honor and Sibert Honor award-winning book, Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups.

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.

"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
ISBN
1338309846 / 9781338309843
Pages
384
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
5.0 x 1.2 in.

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