📖 The Boy Who Dared

Told in the past… Helmuth is a young boy who loves Germany and their possible new leader, Adolf Hitler. He loves Hitler's raspy voice that screams Germany and the way Hitler charms crowds. One day, he'll fight alongside his half-brothers, Hans and Gerhard, for Germany. He knows it's true. In his heart. Told in the present… In the small cell, Helmuth paces back and forth. Back and forth. It's a Tuesday. Back and forth. The executioner works on Tuesdays. Told in the past… But as Helmuth grows up, every day, the rights of people are diminishing. First, the Jews are removed. Helmuth never sees some of his classmates again. Then, the right to listen to foreign radios is banned and everybody who uses the telephone or mail is tracked. Helmuth, just like anybody, thinks that the Nazis are protecting them from communists, knows that Hitler means no harm. But it's the arrival of one man, one childhood elderly friend back from a concentration camp, that changes this young boy's view on all of the German leaders. Told in the present… Helmuth knows that a guillotine awaits just outside. That, at any moment, the guards could come into his tiny cell with only a bare bed and a slop bucket and speak the words, "Come with us. It is time." He prays to God, hopes with all his heart that before he dies, Rudi, Karl, Mutti, Oma, Opa, Gerhard, Hans, and even the unlikable Hugo will receive his story and letters. He knows that he promised his two best friends that they would meet again, and he knows it is true. Told in the past… Helmuth begins writing. Writing articles. Writing pamphlets. Writing about the injustice of Nazis. Writing about the suffering that Brother Worbs had to endure. He keeps himself anonymous, keeps his friends Rudi and Karl out of it. No names. He promised. He smuggles the leaflets onto streets, onto anywhere public. If they are caught, he will take full responsibility, even if it means death. He invokes to God that he won't get caught. But he knows that God knows everything. God knows the horrors he will experience. And God knows that, throughout all of it, his friends will be safe, just like Helmuth promised. I recommend this book because it is about a young boy who grows up in a household of mixed emotions about Hitler. His mother and stepfather love him, while his grandmother and grandfather are not too fond of him. Helmuth must grow up and learn that the Nazis will kill anybody who dares to speak out against them — setting the whole theme and title of this book. This book also tells a true story, as shown in the back of the book, included with pictures. Helmuth Hübner is known for his extraordinary bravery and for being the youngest person ever executed by the Nazis. .

赫尔姆斯是一个年轻的男孩,他喜欢德国和他们可能的新领导人阿道夫-希特勒。他喜欢希特勒那粗犷的声音,那是对德国的呼唤,他也喜欢希特勒吸引人群的方式。有一天,他将与他同父异母的兄弟汉斯和格哈德一起为德国而战,在他的心里,他觉得这是真的。 但随着赫尔穆特的成长,每一天,人们的权利都在减少。首先,犹太人被清除。赫尔穆特再也见不到他的一些同学了。然后,收听外国电台的权利被禁止,每个使用电话或邮件的人都被追踪。赫尔穆特,就像其他人一样,认为纳粹在保护他们不受共产党的侵害,知道希特勒没有恶意。但是,一个人的到来,一个从集中营回来的童年老友,改变了这个小男孩对所有德国领导人的看法。 赫尔穆特开始写作。写文章,写小册子,写关于纳粹的不公正,写下沃布斯兄弟不得不忍受的痛苦。他让自己保持匿名,不让他的朋友鲁迪和卡尔参与进来,没有名字。他把传单偷运到街上的任何公共场所。如果他们被抓住,他将承担全部责任,即使这意味着死亡。他向上帝祈求他不会被抓住。但他知道,上帝知道一切。上帝知道他将经历的恐怖。而且,上帝知道,在这一切中,他的朋友们将是安全的,就像赫尔穆特承诺的那样。 我推荐这本书,因为它讲述的是一个小男孩在一个对希特勒喜忧参半的家庭中成长的故事。他的母亲和继父爱他,而他的祖母和祖父却不太喜欢他。赫尔穆特必须长大,并了解到纳粹会杀死任何敢于反对他们的人--这为这本书的整个主题和标题做了铺垫。这本书还讲述了一个真实的故事,如书的背面所示,包括图片。赫尔穆特-胡伯纳因其非凡的勇敢而闻名,他是有史以来被纳粹处决的最年轻的人。