Book Review: Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow

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Have you ever asked yourself how an entire nation could have come under the spell of one of the most ruthless leaders in history?  Ever wondered just what happened that made people follow Hitler in the first place?  Ever wondered how so many young people bought into the entire construct?

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This book will answer many of these questions for you.  Written as a children's book, the author explores in depth and detail the rise of the Nazi party, and the development of the Hitler Youth program.  Reading through the down and dirty details of how the Nazi party cozied itself into the schools and set themselves up to be the major influence in the lives of the disillusioned young people of Germany, you can see how they managed to take over the minds of the young people of Germany and use their energy and enthusiasm to forward their own agenda.

The author also took a look at the martyrs against the Nazi movement.  The people who stood up for what they believed, and knowing that the penalty for speaking against the regime was death by beheading, they stood up and spread the truth anyway.

There's a saying that says "those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it".  This is a book that takes on a time period that we all need to understand.