The Boy Who Dared the blog !

The Boy who dared by S.C. Bartoletti. Helmuth hubener is a hitler youth who spake up against hitler and then suffered the consequences. Helmuth lived with two brothers and his mom,their grandparents lived next door. They lived a mormon lifestlye and obeyed the rules of mormanism. Helmuth grew up during the time hitler's rise to power. At first he belived hitler when others family members didn't. During middle school his teachers and elementry teachers saw him as a leader, one who would stood out from the rest. His step father even said helmuth was going to serve the fatherland greatly.At first helmuth belived in hitler and all his actions, he even started his own fake detective agency and helped the german police solve one case. Then his brother Gerhard brought an illega shortwave radio. Curious, helmuth investigated. By listening to british radio, helmuth learn the truth. Everything the german radio said as a lie. The nazis said they never lost a battle. He knew rhe british weren't lying because they admited their own defeats. Quickly he invited his friends Karl an rudi. They made flyers about how hitler as lying. They put these flyers in phonebooths late at night. Then the gestapo cauth wind of Helmuth'operations. They questioned and the finally beat his friend names out of him. After that his was charged as an adult for high treason against hitler he was sent to prison then was killed by his death sentence. This book brouth me almost to tears on how sad the ending was. I would recomend this book to anybody who wants to know the german side of ww2.