Wednesday, October 20, 2010

I don't think I could be this brave

Helmuth Hubener was a real German teen during the rise  of Hitler and the Nazi party.  In The Boy Who Dared, author Susan Campbell Bartoletti creates a fictionalized account of what was going through Hubener's mind as sat in a jail cell, awaiting his fate after being arrested for treason.  Told in a series of flashbacks, the reader learns how Hubener was initially swept up in the excitement of the patriotic parades and flashy uniforms, but then came to dislike the mistreatment of Jews, the banning of books, and the abuse of power.  When he dares to print and distribute flyers to encourage resistance, he's caught and sentenced to death.  Expertly researched, this would be an amazing companion book to Bartoletti's award-winning nonfiction book, Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

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