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THE BOY WHO DARED
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
A historical fiction novel base on the true story of a German boy who dared to challenge the Nazi regime.
From the time Helmuth Hubener was three years old, he wanted to be a big, strong soldier for the Fatherland. Adolf Hitler's election in 1933 filled him with patriotism. Helmuth joined the Hitler Youth and continued to dream of someday serving his country on the battlefield. However, as Helmuth matures and freedoms gradually disappear, he begins to question the hateful propaganda his school teachers and Nazi stepfather are communicating to his generation. Helmuth intrepidly decides to take the step so many others deemed unimaginable… Could a seventeen year old boy really change a country? change the world by speaking out?
_40732471_swastika_203. Online Image. 18 November 2009 HelmuthHubenerPortrait. Online Image. 18 November 2009
Connections to the Holocaust and World War II: -Hitler is appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933 -The Reichstag, the parliament building in Berlin, burns. Hitler blames it on the communists. -Benno Seligman, a Jewish student at Helmuth's school, transfers to a Jewish school because of persecution from his teacher, Herr Zeiger. -Helmuth goes to buy apple-cake trimmings from a Jewish shop, but finds it covered in anti-Semitic graffiti and guarded by an SS officer. -A law is passed in 1938 requiring all eligible young people to join the Hitler Youth. -Another law is passed in 1939 forbidding Germans to listen to enemy propaganda over the radio. -The Nazis crush all who threaten to undermine their regime, like Brother Worbs. He was sent to Neuengamme concentration camp where, among other tortures, his fingers were frozen and then beaten with hammers to "warm them up."
I would recommend this book for teenagers interested in seeing WWII from a different perspective. Most stories regarding this time period are told by people in concentration camps or the soldiers who tried to rescue them. However, this book is told in flashback form from the point of view of a prisoner who grew up as a normal boy in Nazi Germany.
curlysue17 added this comment 2009-11-23 09:54:48-06:00
whatev. ur projects are always better than mine. and i get all nervous and mess up in presentations.
gowonders added this comment 2009-11-22 21:57:38-06:00
Your project is so much better than mine. I'm going to fail.
curlysue17 added this comment 2009-11-23 09:54:48-06:00
whatev. ur projects are always better than mine. and i get all nervous and mess up in presentations.
gowonders added this comment 2009-11-22 21:57:38-06:00
Your project is so much better than mine. I'm going to fail.