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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
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...more
"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...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
April 1st 2005
by Scholastic Nonfiction
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Closing lines: Could another despot like Hitler rise to power on the shoulders of young people? Only young people today can answer that question. What are you willing to do to prevent such a shadow from falling over you?
Rating: 4.5
I read The Boy Who Dared and loved it. And, naturally, as this was a Newbery, I had to read this.
As you can tell from the excerpt above, this would be a great book for Holocaust study for middle-schoolers, but with discretion. The subject matter is handled quite well....more
Rating: 4.5
I read The Boy Who Dared and loved it. And, naturally, as this was a Newbery, I had to read this.
As you can tell from the excerpt above, this would be a great book for Holocaust study for middle-schoolers, but with discretion. The subject matter is handled quite well....more
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During World War II, Hitler controlled more than just the military; he controlled the entire country of Germany. Much of what this book explains are parts of the WWII history that is not taught in our schools and shows the true extent of the power that Hitler had over everyone.
The Hitler Youth began as a voluntary organization to support Hitler, but it quickly became a way for Hitler to control the youth. Soon the Hitler Youth was not volunta...more
http://www.teachmentortexts.com/2011/...
During World War II, Hitler controlled more than just the military; he controlled the entire country of Germany. Much of what this book explains are parts of the WWII history that is not taught in our schools and shows the true extent of the power that Hitler had over everyone.
The Hitler Youth began as a voluntary organization to support Hitler, but it quickly became a way for Hitler to control the youth. Soon the Hitler Youth was not volunta...more
This chilling book offers its readers an unusual perspective. As the author states, it is not a book about Hitler himself, nor is it really about the millions of victims who were horrifically murdered under his regime. This book instead focuses on a generation of young men and women who were seduced by his false promises and who chose to follow and devote their hopes and energies to his movement, unwittingly playing a role in the unimaginable horrors that followed. The book is based on first-han...more
Frightening book. Shows how pervasive and persuasive were Hitler's successful efforts to attract young people to his Nazi movement.
Some of my notes from an earlier read ...
Each boy in the Hitler Youth had a Party Record Book in which his performance and progress were recorded. Boys who held exemplary Party Record Books were selected to attend elite schools established by the Nazis.
The Hitler Youth enjoyed the power they had over teachers and other authority figures. Dressed in full uniform, e...more
Some of my notes from an earlier read ...
Each boy in the Hitler Youth had a Party Record Book in which his performance and progress were recorded. Boys who held exemplary Party Record Books were selected to attend elite schools established by the Nazis.
The Hitler Youth enjoyed the power they had over teachers and other authority figures. Dressed in full uniform, e...more
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• APA citation: Bartoletti, S. C. (2005). Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow: New York: Scholastic Nonfiction.
• Genre: Informational
• Awards (If applicable): Newbery Honor Book 2006, Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, 2006
• Format: Print
• Selection Process: Recommendation
• Review:
When you look at history and what it has to offer you want to be able to delve deeper into a specific event and look closer at how it affected various groups. World War II is such an event within histo...more
• APA citation: Bartoletti, S. C. (2005). Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow: New York: Scholastic Nonfiction.
• Genre: Informational
• Awards (If applicable): Newbery Honor Book 2006, Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, 2006
• Format: Print
• Selection Process: Recommendation
• Review:
When you look at history and what it has to offer you want to be able to delve deeper into a specific event and look closer at how it affected various groups. World War II is such an event within histo...more
In 2006 Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow became a Newbery Honor book for her compelling nonfiction book. Although this book is considered children’s literature I would only recommend it for a older audience. Contrary to first thought, the book isn’t all about Hitler as Bartoletti states. I was very aware of the WWII and the holocaust and the identity of Hitler but this book brought a subject to my attention that I feel I may have never known about. Bartolet...more
I enjoyed reading this book so much because I have been fascinated by the Holocaust/World War II ever since I started to learn about it in 6th grade. I remember when my teacher in 6th grade gave us "The Diary of Anne Frank" to read to understand from someone's perspective what it was like to go through the Holocaust. I literally could not put it down and to this day, it has been one of my favorite books of all times. So when I saw that Hitler Youth was an option for this week, I automatically wa...more
2006 Newbery Honor Book
I normally don't get into non fiction books but I admit that I couldn't put this book down and finished it in about 2 hours.
The author goes through the history of German youth starting in 1926 when the Hitler Youth was founded and then goes through the end of the war. She opens the book with the names and pictures of several youth that will be featured throughout the book whose fates are explained at the end.
I knew that Hitler had brainwashed the German youth in the Nazi...more
I normally don't get into non fiction books but I admit that I couldn't put this book down and finished it in about 2 hours.
The author goes through the history of German youth starting in 1926 when the Hitler Youth was founded and then goes through the end of the war. She opens the book with the names and pictures of several youth that will be featured throughout the book whose fates are explained at the end.
I knew that Hitler had brainwashed the German youth in the Nazi...more
Following the stories of twelve German youth during Hitler's time, it chronicles the before, during, and after the war. It showed very well how many of the older generation were against Hitler, but the Nazis took over the school system and all youth clubs. The children were forced to pray to Hitler and were indoctrinated from a very young age. Some of these youth were fanatics, others were unsure, some were part of the resistance and others were Jewish. I think it did a pretty good job of showin...more
1. Junior Book: Informational
2. This nonfiction book describes the chilling story of the Hitler Youth group, which is the largest youth group in history. This contains a solid account of how Hitler gained the trust of millions of German youth, and even includes interviews with surviving members of the Hitler Youth.
3. Critique:
a. The most chilling and interesting element of this book is the inclusion of interviews with those who were actually in the Hitler Youth. Their firsthand accounts showed...more
2. This nonfiction book describes the chilling story of the Hitler Youth group, which is the largest youth group in history. This contains a solid account of how Hitler gained the trust of millions of German youth, and even includes interviews with surviving members of the Hitler Youth.
3. Critique:
a. The most chilling and interesting element of this book is the inclusion of interviews with those who were actually in the Hitler Youth. Their firsthand accounts showed...more
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Hitler Youth is an in-depth look at what it was like to be a teenager during Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and 1940s. It's an incredibly well researched and well written book that covers both life for Aryan youth and Jewish youth, both supporters of Hitler's regimes and the resisters. I, without a doubt, LOVED this book. I've developed a taste for non-fiction over the last year and I've been fascinated by WWII and the Holocaust since I read Number the Stars in elementary...more
Hitler Youth is an in-depth look at what it was like to be a teenager during Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and 1940s. It's an incredibly well researched and well written book that covers both life for Aryan youth and Jewish youth, both supporters of Hitler's regimes and the resisters. I, without a doubt, LOVED this book. I've developed a taste for non-fiction over the last year and I've been fascinated by WWII and the Holocaust since I read Number the Stars in elementary...more
Chilling History You Probably Didn't Learn in School: An eye opening and emotional read, this Sibert & Newberry Honor book is about the child Nazi’s of Germany and how they came to be part of the Nazi Party, some willingly and some forcefully. I definitely wouldn’t recommend this for any grade under sixth grade as they probably don’t have a strong concept of what the Holocaust is even about, not to mention it’s a bit disturbing for their age level. This book would be best for seventh grader...more
A surprise to many, Hitler Youth is a book about the youth in Germany who preceded the Holocaust and those who followed Hitler and his National Socialist party. The book focuses closely on the years 1933-1945 which were the years of the “Third Reich, a regime that changed history and the world forever” (Bartoletti, 2005). Bartoletti largely focuses on the boys and girls who adhered to Hitler’s reign and ruling and periodically includes those who rebelled and rejected his power. Beginning with an...more
Eye-opening and provocative. The author does a phenomenal job of using eye-witness testimony, photography and narrative to convey how Hitler systematically molded and manipulated the youth in Germany to support what his campaign of mass murder.
"The work of Heinrich Heine, a German poet of Jewish origin, burned among the books. One hundred years earlier, Heine had warned, 'Where one burns books, on will, in the end, burn people.'" The author mentions this early on in this book, a chilling way to...more
"The work of Heinrich Heine, a German poet of Jewish origin, burned among the books. One hundred years earlier, Heine had warned, 'Where one burns books, on will, in the end, burn people.'" The author mentions this early on in this book, a chilling way to...more
"What can happen to a people whose youth sacrifices everything in order to serve its great ideals?" - Adolph Hitler, October 1932
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Hitler Youth demonstrates how the Nazis separated children from the parents, their churches and their senses in an effort to make them loyal to the German state and Adolph Hitler.
Starting with the story of a member of the Hitler Youth who was killed in a bloody street fight with Communist youths,...more
4 CDs
4 hours, 27 minutes
Read by Kathrin Kana
Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Hitler Youth demonstrates how the Nazis separated children from the parents, their churches and their senses in an effort to make them loyal to the German state and Adolph Hitler.
Starting with the story of a member of the Hitler Youth who was killed in a bloody street fight with Communist youths,...more
I had heard about Hitler Youth but I never got a lot of details about that organization. I took a German film class in my undergraduate and we watched a movie called Sophie Scholl, so I knew quite a bit about her and the White Rose. I guess I never realized how the Nazi propaganda and Hitler’s speeches had totally and utterly brainwashed the children of Germany. It was astonishing and sad to see so many children willing to fight and die for a man that condoned the murder of Jews, gypsies, homose...more
This book does a very good job on focusing exactly where she says she will- the young people who were influenced and members of the Hitler Youth.
It is important to see how closely education and patriotism were used to indoctrinate and subvert children. Once everything was standardized and what was taught was codified and villified anything outside of the cirriculum (Jewish authors, non- German promoting books, etc) it was simple for them to convince kids that this was the be all and end all. Add...more
It is important to see how closely education and patriotism were used to indoctrinate and subvert children. Once everything was standardized and what was taught was codified and villified anything outside of the cirriculum (Jewish authors, non- German promoting books, etc) it was simple for them to convince kids that this was the be all and end all. Add...more
Hitler Youth is an informational book on how Adolf Hitler influenced the Germans. This book covers his rise to power. On April 20, 1936, Hitler's birthday, boys and girls were sworn into the young people and young maidens. These were Nazi children combining to form "a perfect race." An important point this book makes is that, "Today scientists agree that race is a meaningless concept since human differences are only skin deep." The Nazis, however, considered the Aryan race to be the master of al...more
I really learned a lot from this book. I remember learning about World War II throughout my schooling, even at the college level. However, I never knew how much of an impact Hitler Youth had on the war. These children were brain washed to the point where they would even turn in their parents to the authorities for disagreeing with what Hitler said. I also had no idea that Hitler Youth were sent to the front lines to fight. These children were fighting for a cause that they were lied to about. Ma...more
Title: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Arthor: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Date of publication: 2005
Publisher: New York:Scholastic Nonfiction
ISBN: 13: 9780439353793
Number of Pages: 176
Description/ Summary: 10-16 year olds
Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is not a study of Adolf Hitler but rather the children and teenagers that followed him and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party during the Third Reich (1933–1945). The author explains how the children...more
Arthor: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Date of publication: 2005
Publisher: New York:Scholastic Nonfiction
ISBN: 13: 9780439353793
Number of Pages: 176
Description/ Summary: 10-16 year olds
Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow is not a study of Adolf Hitler but rather the children and teenagers that followed him and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party during the Third Reich (1933–1945). The author explains how the children...more
This is not a book about Hitler. It is a book about the youth that followed and fought for him, according to the author of Hitler Youth. I thought that this was one of the most interesting books that I had ever read about WWII, because it covered a ton of information, but it was all from the perspective of the young people that, either willingly or against their desire, served the Nazi party during the 1930s and 40s. It is so interesting to see how so many people could have fallen prey to Hitler...more
"Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler’s Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a great book that offers a different view of the Nazi Party and the followers. As Americans, we are taught in schools at a young age that the Nazi Party was totally evil and that all followers were evil people as well. A vast majority of the time, students are taught that the Nazi Party and WWII and the Holocaust are all the sole content of the time period but the book barely addresses the Holocaust. This book addresse...more
Traces the Hitler Youth movement's development during the period 1926 to 1945, when it indoctrinated German children and teens in Nazi ideology and loyalty to Hitler. Features personal accounts of members such as Elisabeth Vetter, who betrayed her own parents for objecting to Hitler. Violence.
Bartoletti traces Hitler’s influence over the German youth from 1926 to 1945. Like her prior nonfiction award winning book “Black Potatoes,” she personalizes the history of the Hitler Youth movement.
Hitler...more
1. Nonfiction, historical
2. This book tells the stories of numerous young people who joined
the popular “Hitler Youth” movement in Germany in the 1930’s. Hitler knew how to appeal to youth and grab their attention, and he knew how to get them to believe in everything he said. Hitler took advantage of these children to help him become successful in his inhumane plans by brainwashing and using their ignorance against them.
3. Critique
a. Historical reference is the area I will comment on for this re...more
2. This book tells the stories of numerous young people who joined
the popular “Hitler Youth” movement in Germany in the 1930’s. Hitler knew how to appeal to youth and grab their attention, and he knew how to get them to believe in everything he said. Hitler took advantage of these children to help him become successful in his inhumane plans by brainwashing and using their ignorance against them.
3. Critique
a. Historical reference is the area I will comment on for this re...more
Horrifying and fascinating all at once. What this horrifying satanic man could have achieved if he had been trying to achieve good instead of evil. The kind of loyalty he inspired in so much of the German youth population was incredible to read about. Of course many of them were coerced and all of them were lied to, but he made them feel valued and empowered, which is one lesson that I took away from this book -- we should not underestimate the contributions of our country's youth, rather we sh...more
It's hard to say I really liked this book when the contents are so horrifying and almost unbelievable in that the Nazis had so much contempt for life and diversity. Their hatred and barbarity seems incredibly disgusting, insane and depraved. I was totally amazed at how the Nazis tried to control every aspect of life (like even if young woman could wear lipstick....it reminds me of how the stray hair out of a veil of a middle Eastern woman can result in imprisonment in some countries). The Nazis...more
Hitler Youth is a great book because of the essential facts told about the German Youth of World War Two. This book is about the German children that were in Hitler Youth. It tells individual stories of children in Hitler Youth. Astonishingly, some children were forced into Hitler Youth. They did not believe in Nazis Socialism. Others were eager to join. For example, a child told the Nazis authorities that her parents spoke bad of Hitler. Her parents were sent to a Concentration Camp. This book...more
In Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow the author, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, provides readers with an interesting perspective of World War II and the Holocaust, one that I think is often overlooked by teachers when educating students about this time period. Bartoletti is able to portray the characters in a way that makes it easier for students to understand how easy it was for German youth to be persuaded by Hitler's propaganda, which I believe also serves as a good lesson for our schoo...more
Since informational texts about the Holocaust are so often presented from the perspective of the victims, I found it fascinating to read about it from the perspective of those who fully supported Hitler, and who grew up in Germany with involvement in the war that affected so many worldwide. admire the bravery of the individuals who, within the book, spoke openly about their involvement in Hitler Youth during the time; while what they were doing may not have been right, it was hard for them to te...more
It's important to do things that make you uncomfortable because that's part of what makes you grow. I hate reading about atrocities of hate but we can't ignore them. This book was powerful and I learned some new things. I don't remember ever learning about the euthanasia program that preceded the concentration camps. That information was particularly nauseating.
For me, the most powerful chapter was the one that focused on the White Rose. I am sickened at the thought of those brave young people...more
For me, the most powerful chapter was the one that focused on the White Rose. I am sickened at the thought of those brave young people...more
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti is an American writer of children's literature. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. Susan started as an English teacher and inspired many students before deciding to pursue writing in earnest. She sold her first short story in 1989. Three years later in 1992 she published her first pict...more
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