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Author
  
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Nominations
  
Sibert Medal

4.1/5
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Originally published
  
1 April 2005

Awards
  
John Newbery Medal

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Genres
  
Children's literature, Non-fiction

Similar
  
Works by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, John Newbery Medal winners, Children's literature

Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow is a non-fiction children's book written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and published in 2005. It received the Newbery Honor medal in 2006.

The book is a study of the Hitler Youth, a paramilitary organization of children dedicated to furthering the aims of the Third Reich, and was organized around interviews with 12 former members and their experiences in the organization.

One episode of the book is fleshed out into her novel The Boy Who Dared, about Helmuth Hübener, the youngest person to be sentenced to death by the Nazis during World War II.

References

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Wikipedia