The Boy who dared

It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddle figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shivering. Trembling.

It's a Tuesday.


The executioner works on Tuesday.


    Helmuth is a German teen who dared to stand up for himself and others. His father died when he was a young boy, and lived with his mother, Emma (He called her Mutti), and his two brothers, Gerhard and Hans.Hitler just rose to power by promising more jobs and an era of peace. Little did Germany know that Hitler was about to add a new word to the dictionary, genocide. Helmuth wanted at first to join the Hitler Youth program, but as he grew and payed more attention to the rest of Germany, he quickly realized that Hitler may have been a mistake. And the worst part is...That the half of Germany that follow Hitler blindly will punish anyone who will speak up about the hatred toward Jews or the personal belief that Hitler may being doing something wrong...       By death.