Bartoletti, S. (2005). Hitler Youth: Growing up in
Hitler's shadow. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction.
Susan Campbell Bartlett
brings to light the children that Hitler recruited to further his empire. And
although it can be very off-putting at first, the accuracy in which these
stories are compiled and told can't help to pull at the heartstrings of all who
read it.
Susan Campbell Bartlett
shares the lives of the children who sincerely believed in Hitler's new world
of opportunity and power. She describes how these children fought for
Hitler's cause and died for it. These children also fought against the
Russians in Germany. Campbell's research isn't complete with accounts of
children whose eyes were unveiled to the violence Hitler subjected them to and
show their regret.
For the older reader,
teachers can use excerpts of this as a precursor to Anne Frank or Night.
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