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