Sparing the Child

Bosmajian explores children's texts that have either a Holocaust survivor or a former member of the Hitler Youth as a protagonist. Sparing the Child: An Introduction 1. Official Histories and Counter-Texts: Literature for Youth about Nazism 2. A Hitler Youth Does Not Cry: Text and Subtext in Der Hitlerjunge Ouex 3. Melancholy Detachment: The Narrative Voice in Richter's Trilogy about Hitler Youths and Young Soldiers 4. Hitler Youths with Private Values: Barbara Gehrts' Don't Say A Word and Burger's Why Were You in the Hitler Youth? 5. Doris Orgel's The Devil in Vienna : From Trope into History 6. Holocaust Narratives for Young Readers: The Construction of an Enabling Rhetoric 7. Ruth Minsky Sender's Memoirs and the Construction of the Holocaust Lady 8. Acquired Knowledge about the Holocaust in Fictional Narratives: Heroic Gestures and Unredeemable Ironies 9. Hidden Grief: Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili and the Limitations of the Holocaust Picture Book Conclusion: .and there remains the story that can be told. Bibliography Index