The Boy Who Dared By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Finally, many purely hated Jews because they were not Aryan. Germany was one of these countries. Hitler, the leader of Germany, has carried hate for the Jews since early childhood. Primarily, he blamed them for his mother’s death along with him not getting into his dream school, Vienna Art College. Also, they were blamed by Germany for defeat in WWI and as the cause for unemployment. However, mainly Jews were persecuted because of the way they looked. At the time, Hitler wanted a racially pure Germany. He believed that by adapting the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest, he would be able to create a stronger generation and kill those that are impure or disabled.

Although Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust, many other groups were targeted based on racial or political grounds. Other groups that were attacked by the Nazis included LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Roma(gypsies), Poles, Slavic Peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and members of political opposition groups. These Non-Jewish victims were not considered as victims of the Holocaust. So, why did Adolf Hitler kill 11 million people? First, we need to inspect Hitler’s crazy ideas. Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany during the Holocaust. He came to power in 1933, when Germany was experiencing financial trouble. Hitler promised the Germans that he would bring them great wealth and he stated that he would make

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

He labeled the Jews as "foreigners" who invaded their economy and took away jobs. The Nazis created a Jewish genocide, also referred to as the Holocaust. Over six million Jews were brutally murdered by the German Nazis. They were shot, stabbed, beat up and sent to concentration camps. All survivors were forced to go into hiding. By 1945 only one third of the Jewish population was still alive. Though the Jewish nation was the most affected the Nazis also killed millions of Freemasons, Jehovah witnesses and any other political party members. The Nazis committed crimes against humanity though, to their benefit, they did provide prosperity for their nation.

By blaming the Jews for the economic crisis that Germany was suffering through as well as their defeat in WW1, Hitler targeted the Jews as the country’s main enemy. According to him, the Jewish were directly responsible for Germany’s problems. Hitler hated the Jews leading up to the Holocaust because he believed that the Jewish financiers were responsible for sending the world into its first World War, causing the deaths over 100,000 Germans. According to the Nazis the “Aryan race” was the best and strongest race. Jews were of another inferior race. In fact so inferior that they were not considered to be “people” by the

The holocaust was the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during World War 2. Adolf Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for Germany losing World War I. He considered Jewish people to be less than human. Hitler also believed in the superiority of the Aryan race. Once he became chancellor of Germany, Hitler took away all of the Jews rights as human beings. Hitler forced the Jews to live in ghettos. The Jews would be transferred to concentration camps, where they would do hard labor. The Jews died in the concentration camps by diseases, starvation, or the cold. Some camps had gas

Hitler killed over six million Jewish people in the Holocaust. He strongly disliked the race.

The Jews were starved to death, shot down for the most pointless reasons, were put through all different kinds of torture. Those who survived were forced to work in labor camps, all because Adolf Hitler had a bone to pick with Jews. Adolf Hitler was a dictator who had 850,000 Nazis under his hand. He despised Jews, and used his forces to take Jews hostage and force them to work in concentration camps. Ironically enough, it is believed that Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry. He wanted to rid the world of Jews, creating what he believed to be a perfect civilization.

The Holocaust is a horrible time in human history. The leader of the Nazi party and one responsible for the Holocaust is Adolf Hitler. Many authors use the Holocaust and Hitler as a base for their books. One example of these books is Lord of the Flies. The book is set in the middle of World War 2. The book is about children that get stranded on an Island without adults. The children vote for a chief, Ralph. Jack was the competition for Ralph, after Jack lost the race for chief he started his Hunters. This relates to Hitler because people think he went mad because he did not get into his dream art school. They both had a crave for power after they failed. They both had the idea of their of an aryan race.

When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, he immediately began enforcing an authoritative state. An authoritative state is a state favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom. Hitler started a world war to achieve his dream of world domination. The war left behind an estimated 72 million dead, among them 47 million civilians, of whom some six million were Jewish. Jews were the targets of the Holocaust because Hitler hated Jews and blamed them for all of the problems in the world. Throughout the years of the Holocaust, this is seen in many ways, starting from the Nazis having book burnings to get rid of un-German writings proclaiming the death of Jewish intellectualism all the way to the extremity of the mass murder of Jews. This process progressed rapidly, and it had lasting effects for the entire world.

Aldof Hitler saw a imperfect group of people and blamed them for the loss of the war. Hitler stated they were subhumans and they needed to be killed to get rid of the infestation of jews that Germany had. Hitler thought getting rid of jews would help make germany a better place, but it did not. He successfuly killed jews and nothing in Germany got any better.

Hitler was obsessed with the racial superiority he believed the German peoples had over all other inferior peoples. He wanted to rule the world, but in order to carry out his solution, he needed to convince the German people to listen to him. Perhaps Hitler would never have been able to do what he did had World War I never occurred. As Resnick said in his book, The Holocaust; After World War I, Germany was trying to rebuild and recover…Both the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression severely afflicted Germany. "In many respects, these terrible conditions made Hitler's rise to power possible." (Resnick p. 15) People in desperate situations will listen to anyone offering a way out. Hitler offered not only a way out of Germany's turmoil, but also someone to blame for it; he pointed at the Jews.

Hitler invented a program known as ‘The Holocaust’ a systematic extermination of any Jews, gypsies, disabled, and people who were of different religious background as Hitler believed in a pure race. Hitler persecuted any individuals who he saw would be a potential threat to his rise in power. He persecuted and executed social groups such as the Jews, gypsies, disabled, and people who were of different religious background as they were regarded as ‘inferior’. In the year 1933, Jews numbered approxiamently 525,000 (0.8% of the German population) (Museum, German Jews During The Holocaust, 1939–1945, 2015). Hitler had firm racial policies and believed that non Germans should not have any citizenship rights. Many of these people were placed into concentration camps (Museum, Concentration Camps, 1933–1939, 2015).

“The Boy who dared” was brought into writing by Susan Campbell Bartoletti in 2008. It is an American novel based on historical fiction. “The Boy who Dared” is a fictional narrative of a real-life story. It is based on the inspirational and heart breaking life of Helmuth Hubener. It is set during the period of oppression of the Nazi regime during the Second World War and narrates Helmuth’s astounding bravery and shrewdness. When Hitler gained power and took control of Germany, many people submitted to his will and did not stand up against the terrible persecution they faced. Even in such conditions Helmuth raised his voice against the tyranny of the dictator while managing to avoid arrest.

The main character of The Boy Who Dared, Helmuth, lives during the time of World War II. Helmuth is not contented with his life during this time. He lives in Germany, but he does not agree with Germany’s beliefs. He feels split into two and does not know whether or not to be loyal to himself or his family and country. In addition, Helmuth is forced to watch his Jewish neighbors and friends be tortured, mistreated, and die in front of his own eyes. It would be absolutely horrible to live during this time in history. Finding where your loyalties lay during a time of war like this is incredibly hard. Furthermore, watching people get mistreated and having almost no power over what is happening would be an endless struggle, one Helmuth had to overcome