num_pages: 656
description: In this riveting, powerful narrative, Lynn Nicholas shows how children under the Nazis became mere objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Nicholas recounts the euthanasia and eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping and “Germanization,” mass executions, and slave labor to which the Nazis subjected Europe’s children. She also captures the uprooted children’s search for their families in the aftermath of the war. A disturbing and absolutely necessary work, Cruel World opens a new chapter in World War II studies.
language: English
title: Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
titlecomplete: Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
genres: 20th Century, Holocaust, History, World War II, European History, World History, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 89
publisher: Vintage