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Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. The boy who dared. Scholastic, 2008
[[978-0-439-68013-4 // 0-439-68013-1]
This is the fictionalized story of a seventeen-year-old young man who
was executed in Germany in October 1942 for writing and distributing
leaflets against the Nazi Government. The story in the 202 page book
is told from his cell while he is waiting for his execution and is an
interesting read. helmuth was a young man who was coming to age in
Hitler's Germany, was a Hitler Youth and had a brother who had a
brother who went off to war in the German army. Bertoletti, who wrote
the award winning Hitler Youth book thoroughly researched this story.
There are wonderful historical notes at the end of the book.
Review by Fredrick Muller from LM Net

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