Sparing the child : grief and the unspeakable in youth literature about Nazism and the Holocaust / Hamida Bosmajian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.

Official histories and counter-texts : literature for youth about Nazism -- "A Hitler youth does not cry" : text and subtext in Der Hitlerjunge quex -- Melancholy detachment : the narrative voice in Richter's trilogy about Hitler youths and young soldiers -- Hitler youths with private values : Barbara Gehrt's Don't say a word and Horst Burger's Why were you in the Hitler youth? -- Doris Orgel's The devil in Vienna : from Trope into history -- Holocaust narratives for young readers : the construction of an enabling rhetoric -- Ruth Minsky Sender's memoirs and the construction of the "Holocaust lady" -- Acquired knowledge about the Holocaust in fictional narratives : heroic gestures and unredeemable ironies -- Hidden grief : Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili and the limitations of Holocaust picture books -- Conclusion : "and there remains the story that can be told."