Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Boy Who Dared

In the book The Boy Who Dared a young boy named Helmuth Guddat Hubner starts as an 8 year old boy who is growing up in Germany in 1928, he is against the Nazis but he's to afraid to speak out. Then he has to join the Hitler youth group where is forced to worship Hitler when really he's against him 100%. As he grows he starts to express whats on his mind by reading illegal books and listening to an illegal radio. Until he gets an idea to express to the world whats on his mind, he gets his friend Rudi and Karl to get in on it and they make thousands of leaflets and spread them across their home town. Then the day came where someone snitched to the Gestapo about Helmuths revolution plan and they do a ravaging search of his house and come across the illegal items that he owns. Helmuth is taken to prison where is hit, kicked and bruised badly. The tree boys made a pack saying if one got arrested they wouldn't snitch on anyone but they broke Helmuth down and blurted out two names Rudi Wobbe and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe. Then there'll all under arrest. Then in court Karl and Rudi and sentenced to prison and Helmuth to death on October 27 1941.

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