With great urgency this book tells of those who dedicated their youth the criminal goals of National Socialism, but also of those who resisted bravely. What did it mean to be young in the Third Reich? Based on diaries and letters, and especially talks with eyewitnesses, Susan Campbell Bartoletti paints a multifaceted picture of German youth from the early thirties to the end of World War II. Former members of the Hitler Youth report of the fascination of community life, but also of their fears and the collapse of their world view at the end of the war.