A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl.

The bloody handprint: The murder of Herbert Norkus -- "For the flag we are ready to die": Hitler's rise to power -- "The brown pest": Organizing the Hitler youth -- "Where one burns books": A Nazi education -- "This thing about the Jews": Nazi persecution of the Jews -- "Muscle-tearing hard work": Preparing for war -- "Body and soul": The German war machine -- "Serving a mass murderer": The Holocaust begins -- "Long live freedom!": Hitler youth and resistance -- "Fanatical fighters": Hitler's boy soldiers, 1943-1945 -- "I could not help but cry.".