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  The Boy Who Dared

  by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

  Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, HITLER YOUTH, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmuth's story emerges in... (more)
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  Hitler Youth

  Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

  by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

  "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 Hitler, Nuremberg 1933 By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the... (more)
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  Soldier Boys

  by Dean Hughes

  Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick Are On Opposite Sides Of The War And Fighting For The Same Thing. At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army. Dieter's determined to prove his allegiance and bravery all costs. Spence, just sixteen, drops out of his Utah high school to begin training as a paratrooper. He's seen how boys who weren't much in high... (more)
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  The Burgdorf Cycle: Book 4

  Children and Fire

  by Ursula Hegi

  Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi’s Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by book groups.Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi’s Children and Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever transform the lives of the townspeople. At the core of this remarkable novel... (more)
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  The Ausländer

  by Paul Dowswell

  When Peter's parents are killed, he is sent to an orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. But Peter is Volksdeutscher-of German blood. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looks just like the boy on the Hitler Youth poster. The Nazis decide he is racially valuable. Indeed, a prominent German family is pleased to adopt such a fine Aryan specimen into their household. But despite his new "family," Peter feels like a... (more)
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  The Berlin Boxing Club

  by Robert Sharenow

  Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew; after all, he's never even been in a synagogue. But the bullies at his school in Nazi-era Berlin don't care that Karl's family doesn't practice religion. Demoralized by their attacks against a heritage he doesn't accept as his own, Karl longs to prove his worth. Then Max Schmeling, champion boxer and German hero, makes a deal with Karl's father to give Karl... (more)
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  The Book Thief

  by Markus Zusak

  Set during World War II in Nazi Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing something she can’t resist — books. With the help of her best friend, Rudy, she learns to live on Himmel Street after her brother dies on the train ride there. She learns to read thanks to her... (more)
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  Behind the Bedroom Wall

  by Laura E. Williams

  It's 1942. Thirteen-year-old Korinna Rehme is an active member of her local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by instituting a program to deal with what he calls the "Jewish problem," a program that she witnesses as her Jewish neighbors are attacked and taken from their homes. Korinna's parents, however, are members of a secret underground... (more)
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  Hitler Youth

  by Michael H. Kater

  In modern times, the recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933 soon after the Nazi Party assumed power in Germany. Determining that by age ten children's minds could be turned from play to politics, the regime inducted nearly all German juveniles between the ages of ten and eighteen into its state-run organization. The... (more)
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  WITNESS: Voices from the Holocaust

  by Joshua M. Greene, Shiva Kumar

  A Living Testimony Fifty-five years after the end of World War II, the Holocaust continues to cast a dark shadow. For the past two decades, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by videotaping testimonies from those who lived through the Nazi regime, a project that has led to an acclaimed documentary film and this extraordinary book. The... (more)
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  Yearning for the Living God

  Reflections from the Life of F. Enzio Busche

  by F. Enzio Busche, Tracie A. Lamb

  F. Enzio Busche, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, was born in Germany in 1930, three years before Hitler's rise to power. Fifteen years later, when World War II ended, Enzio was a prisoner of war, having been drafted into the German army at age fourteen. The war left Enzio with many questions: Is there a God? What is the purpose of life? What happens after death? In time, he learned the answers.... (more)
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  Songs in the Night: Book 1

  While Mortals Sleep

  by Jack Cavanaugh

  Thrilling World War II Fiction From Jack Cavanaugh Josef Schumacher, a pastor in Berlin, witnesses the increasing influence of the Nazi youth movement on the young people of his church. Fearful of the sway of prevailing rhetoric and misguided patriotism, Josef risks everything to counteract the lies of a Fascist government and the charismatic power of the Führer. When Nazi doctrine manifests itself within... (more)
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  Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

  by Alfons Heck

  "A CHILD OF HITLER: GERMANY IN THE DAYS WHEN GOD WORE A SWASTIKA" is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a high-ranking leader of the Hitler Youth, who now is an American citizen and a nationally recognized authority on Nazi youth indoctrination. The book is required reading in over 380 universities and schools.
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  Three Against Hitler

  by Rudi Wobbe, Jerry Borrowman

  A compelling true story of three LDS teens fight for freedom. "Rudi Wobbe: Charged with Preparation to High Treason and Aiding and Abetting the Enemy." Thus began the trial of Rudi Wobbe and two of his teenage friends as they stood before the justices of the dreaded Voksgerichtshof, the infamous supreme court of Nazi Germany. All the power and indignation of the Third Reich now focused on these three young... (more)
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  Hitler's Warriors

  by Guido Knopp

  In this, the latest book in Guido Knopp's reassessment of Germany's guilty past, he turns to the careers of six key military leaders of the Third Reich, and their relationships with Hitler. Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel, the hero of North Africa, fitted perfectly with the cliches of Nazi propaganda. In October 1944, however, Rommel was forced to take his own life, as Hitler was convinced that the 'Desert Fox' was... (more)