A review by mjsteimle
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

3.0

I'm not sure if this book was written for a young adult audience, but it feels like a YA book. It does a good job of explaining Nazi Germany from the point of view of a number of teens in Germany in the 1930s and 40s. There are enthusiastic Hitler Youth leaders, Jews, resistance fighters, reluctant Hitler Youth participants. The reason I say it feels like a YA book is because it does a lot of telling and explaining about what was going on without much analysis. I very much appreciated that this was a period of history told through the words and actions of real teenagers. I think this would be an excellent book to introduce the details of Nazi Germany and WII to young adults, but as an adult I don't find it essential reading on WWII.