xix, 632 pages : 21 cm

In this narrative, Lynn Nicholas shows how children under the Nazis became mere objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Nicholas recounts the euthanasia and eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping and "Germanization," mass executions, and slave labor to which the Nazis subjected Europe's children. She also captures the uprooted children's search for their families in the aftermath of the war. --From publisher's description

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2005"--Title page verso

"History/World War II."--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-606) and index

pt. I. Producing the perfect Nazi. Applied eugenics ; Purging the unfit ; Increasing the master race ; Education for the new world order ; Hitler's children -- pt. II. Seeking refuge. The floodgates close ; Saving the children -- pt. III. Out for blood : the Nazis go global. Good blood ; Bad blood ; Germanizing the West -- pt. IV. Radicalization and resistance. Nightmares in utopia : Russia and Greece ; Seek and hide : hidden children ; Arbeit macht frei : forced labor ; Total war -- pt. V. Aftermath. Liberation and repatriation ; The defeated ; No place like home

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