national socialism and youth

The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. "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.

Describes the lives of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

From 1938 to 1945, the Nazi regime hunted down, imprisoned, and killed millions of European Jews but was especially aggressive toward Jewish children.

A memoir in which the author recalls his experiences as a fifteen-year-old boy in Lower Silesia, near the Czechoslovakian and Polish borders, conscripted by the Germany army to fight on the Eastern Front until the last few days of World War II.

Describes the experiences of children living in Europe during the Nazi regime, focusing on the crimes against humanity that were carried out against innocent children during the years before and during World War II.

A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl.

Under the Nazis, Europe's children were simply objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. The children were subjected to euthanasia, eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping, "Germanization", mass executions and slave labor. At the end of the war, uprooted children tried to search for their families and many never found them.

Examines the lives of children and teens living in Germany before and during the Holocaust, including the rise of Nazism, growing persecution of Jews, and the Hitler Youth.

Traces the history of the Hitler Youth beginning in 1933 and examines how millions of children between the ages of ten and eighteen were forced to join, fed Nazi propaganda, and then willfully obeyed the commands of the Third Reich.