Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

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

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781338309843
ISBN10: 1338309846
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | Europe
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | Holocaust

About the Author
Susan Campbell Bartoletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children. Her fiction includes the novels The Boy Who Dared, Dear America: A Coal Miner's Bride, and No Man's Land, as well as a number of picture books. She won the Newbery Honor for her nonfiction book Hitler Youth. A former eighth-grade teacher for 18 years, Bartoletti now writes full-time and lives in Pennsylvania with her family.