"To whom the youth belongs, the future belongs to him." Under this motto, dictators of all stripes turn a child into the property of the state, hoping to commit crimes at the hands of those who know nothing else. The book by Erica Mann (1905-1969), published in 1938, first in English in New York, then in German in Amsterdam, tells the world on the verge of disaster how the Nazis, led by Hitler, managed to defeat Germany, subjugating its youth.