Hitler's Youth

Bartoletti, S. C. (2005). Hitler's Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow. New York, NY: Scholastic. 

This book focuses on the Hitler Youth group and how Hitler manage to mold them to create a new world. He believed that the older people were not good material for his plans. The photographs in this book are very telling of the situation at hand and how children were recruited. Many times, the young kids would be drawn into the group by offering night camp fires, excitement, and a way on how to disagree with their parents. Once in the youth group, it seemed that many of them were like under a Hitler spell. They followed his ideas and worshiped him like he was a god. The cruelty they endured was portrayed through the photographs. 

The author does a great job of making sure all of the information in this book, is factual. As a historical nonfiction book, the photographs really captive the reader with bringing them into the Hitler era. Excellent resource for any research and/or presentation of the Holocaust, dictatorship, or Hitler studies.

Author read aloud: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/asset/susan-campbell-bartoletti-reads-hitler-youth

Additional Resources: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-prelude.htm