The Boy Who Dared Audiobook (Free)

Just like the Nazis are rising to power, Helmuth Hübener, a German schoolboy, is caught up in all the swashbuckling bravado of his period. The good looking stormtrooper uniforms, the shiny jackboots and armbands, the rousing patriotism all serve to draw him into this shiny new world filled with promise and hope. In the beginning his patriotism is unwavering. But every day the rights of people all over Germany are diminishing. Jews are threatened and their businesses are being destroyed. The truth has been censored, and risk lurks everywhere. Anyone can start you. The world has turned upside down: Patriotism means denouncing others, like means hate, and speaking out means treason. How much much longer can Helmuth keep silent? Told in flashback, Newbery Honor Book author Susan Campbell Bartoletti magnificently explores the life span of the heroic German youth who dared to operate against the Nazi routine.