The Boy Who Dared pages 120 to 140

Now as Helmuth becomes more braver and a little less cautious he invites not only Karl to listen to the shortwave radio but also Rudi to listen but both rotate on separate evenings because Helmuth does not want them to know any other names but his in case they get caught. Throughout August Helmuth listens to the BBC London one night with Karl and another night with Rudi. Then soon after in September Helmuth decides to tell both Karl and Rudi what he is doing. At first his friends become upset with him but then understand his reasoning and forgive him.

Helmuth soon gets an idea to write pamphlets about the Nazi with tittles such as "It All Hitler Fault", 'There not telling you everything!", and " Do you know what the Hitler Youth is and what goal it Perseus? Its a compulsory organization of the highest order for the cultivation of obedient Nazis. Helmuth shows these to Karl and Rudi, they disperse them everywhere they can as a way to attack the Nazi and let people know what is really going on. Helmuth makes sure that there are no names in the letter so that none of them get caught and each week and sometimes each night Helmuth stays up at night typing vigorously a new pamphlet.

Soon after Herhard graduates from training in the single corps and is sent to officer training school in Warsaw. Then America declares war on Japan and Germany declares war on America. Hugo constantly vents to Helmuth saying " Roosevelt has his war now!" he says" Thanks to his Jewish advisers. Its all the Jews fault you know, Its all apart of there plan to destroy the German Reich!"

Then Brother Worrbs is set free and returns bruised and severely beaten. He tells Helmuth of how he was treated in the concentration camp. He tells him about the starvation rations, the guard, the punishments and how he was stripped naked and forced to stand knee deep in snow, how the guards poured hot water on his hands , let them freeze and then hit his hands with a club " to warm them up", they broke all his fingers. Brother Worbbs tells Helmuth gruesome stories saying that you will admit to anything to stop the pain. Helmuth is out ragged and finds this behaviour inhuman and repulsive.

Helmuth shows his radio to a co-worker Gerhard Duwer who rolls his eyes at the reports on the RRG. Helmuth also shows him the pamphlets, and to Helmuths surprise Duwer knows two printing apprintances in Kiel. They can be trusted to print leaflets, hundreds and hundreds of them. This excites Helmuth at the prospect of spreading thousands of leaflet's across Germany.
Helmuth begins to grow less cautious now trying to find more people to help him with spreading his leaflets. Another co-worker Werner Kranz jots down notes in French and Helmuth thinks that maybe he can get him to translate the pamphlets for him so he can give them to the French so they ill see that not all Germans support Hitler and his beliefs. The author uses foreshadowing in this scene because when Kranz sees the writing he refuses to get involved.

Then on February fifth at two thirty, two Gestapo agents stride purposefully through the office door. Helmuth figures that his boss Herr Mohns reported him to the Gestapo after he saw Helmuth trying to give the leaflets to Werner Kranz who refused to have anything to do with the Pamphlets.

Then once again in Helmuths present, Herr Rank tells Helmuth that there will be no clemency and that he is sentenced to death and the loss of civil rights during his lifetime. The execution of the judgment will take place 1942 the 27 of October after eight pm. That is today. Helmuth decides to write letters to his family before he is executed.