Hitler's Children

Eighty-two percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend -- Hitler Youth -- or one of its affiliates by the time membership became fully compulsory in 1939. These adolescents were recognized by the SS, an exclusive cadre of Nazi zealots, as a source of future recruits to its own elite ranks, which were made up largely of men under the age of thirty.