Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Author:Susan Campbell Bartoletti [Bartoletti, Susan Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-18T06:00:00+00:00

(Preceding image) Prisoners stand during a roll call at a concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. In the front row, two men support another inmate too weak to stand. Roll call often lasted several hours. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

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During the summer of 1942, a group of courageous University of Munich students took action when they heard about the plight of the Jews. To inform the public, they circulated thousands of bold leaflets throughout Munich and other towns in southern Germany.

The leaflets called shame on the German people, stating: “[W]e want to cite the fact that since the conquest of Poland, three hundred thousand Jews in this country have been murdered in the most bestial way. Here we see the most frightful crime against the dignity of man, a crime that is unparalleled in the whole of history. For Jews, too, are human beings…. ”

The students called themselves the White Rose. One of its founding members was Hans Scholl. Sickened by the war and haunted by the Nazis’ atrocities, Hans had found the courage to speak out and a duplicating machine.

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