num_pages: 176
description: Robert F. Sibert Award-winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the riveting and often chilling story of Germany's powerful Hitler Youth groups. 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.
language: English
title: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
titlecomplete: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
genres: Middle Grade, Germany, Audiobook, Historical, Biography, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 5723
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Sibert Medal, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
publisher: Scholastic