Newbery Medal - Honors Title(s) Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic Focus), (Hardcover)

from Stsmurphy

This book gives the reader an inside view of what it is like to be in the Hitler Youth in the 1930's and 40's. The author helps hook the reader into the life of a member of that infamous organization, The Hitler Youth, by providing interviews, diaries, pictures and first-hand account letters from...

from yeremenko

A lot of this book covers well known facts. The interviews with former Nazis are interesting, but little if anything new is uncovered. I read a lot about WW2 and I didn't really find much I didn't know. In the intro and the afterword the author seems shocked at the basics of the Nazis and the wor...

from Omrythea

After Hitler rose to power, he quickly began recruiting youngsters (mostly age 10 and up) to join Hitler Youth parties. This book gives specific accounts of numerous youngsters who joined his party or fought against it. More than half of Germany's youth willingly volunteered to join. Later it bec...

from L_Cochran

As a young person, I was extremely interested in the Holocaust. I had a hard time believing that something like this had happened, and loved reading more and more on the subject. I really wish that I had had this book back then! This book tells a completely different perspective than what one is ...

from benuathanasia

I could have done without the introductory cast of characters - it wasted a lot of time. It would have been much better to meet them organically within their own stories, but whatever. It was a fascinating, oft-overlooked bit about the Holocaust and Second World War and I'd love to learn more abo...