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What was the name of the prison Helmuth was in?
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Plotzensee Prison
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Where was the prison located?
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Berlin, Germany
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What day of imprisonment did the story begin?
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Day 264
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What day does the executioner work?
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Tuesdays
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What were the names of Helmuth's brothers?
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Hans and Gehard
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Who are Opa and Oma?
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Grandparents of the boys
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What is Helmuth's mothers name?
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Mutti or Emma
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Where does Helmuth's mother work?
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A nursing home at night
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What was the RRG?
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German radio station
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What is the Jungvolk?
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Hitler Youth group
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What is inscribed on the daggers of the Jungvolk?
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Blood and Honor
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What was the name of Helmuth's Jewish friend who's father owned the butcher shop?
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Benno Seligmann
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What are the SA?
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Storm troopers, Hitler's private army
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What is Helmuth's favorite food?
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Plum cake
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What did the National Government regard as the basis of National life?
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Family
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What is the Reichstag?
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Parliament building, seat of government in Berlin
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Who was Heinrich Worbs?
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Opa's good friend
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Who is Herr Zeiger?
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Helmuth's teacher
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What was done to the Jewish owned businesses?
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Paint on windows, doors, boycotted
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What did Benno Seligmann's father do that angered the SA?
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Washed the paint off of his windows
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Where did Helmuth and his brothers learn that Germans were to read only German books so they weren't poisoned by others who promoted liberal ideas?
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At the movies
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What books did Helmuth enjoy?
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Karl May adventure novels
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What were Germans supposed to do with non-German related books?
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Burn them
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Who was Hugo Hubener?
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Mutti's boyfriend, later husband
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What was unusual about the radio Hugo traded for?
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It received only German radio stations
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What was the significance of the model of the radio Hugo traded for?
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VE 301 January 30, the day Hitler became leader
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What do the Germans say instead of good morning in class?
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Heil Hitler
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Where did Helmuth meet his two best friends-Rudi Wobbe and Karl Heinz Schnibbe?
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Primary class at church
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Which of the boy's was expelled from Jungvolk?
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Karl
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What did Helmuth feel would restore his friendships?
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Their own detective agency
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What was the detective agency called?
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Lord Lister Detective Agency
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What did the Gestapo find in Rudi's wallet that raised suspicion?
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The Lord Lister Detective Agency card
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What was the size of Hemuth's cell?
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8 feet
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What classes did Helmuth take?
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Typing and stenography
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Why did Helmuth practice typing and stenography in private?
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he was afraid Hugo would make fun of him.
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How old is Helmuth when he joins the Hitler youth?
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14
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How did Helmuth feel about the Hitler Youth group?
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Wasn't fun, despised their politics
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Why wasn't Helmuth's brother drafted?
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Hans served by building submarines
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What was the radio law called?
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Extraordinary Radio Law
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What brought about the radio law?
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Poland attacked Germany
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What was the purpose of the radio law?
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To protect the Fatherland from lies and enemy propaganda.
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What did the British planes drop over German people?
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Leaflets-a warning to the German people
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What is Helmuth supposed to do with the leaflets?
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Throw them away.
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What is a blitzkrieg?
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Hard and fast warfare
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What happened on Helmuth's mother's wedding day?
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Helmuth argued with Hugo about the war
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What song did Helmuth and his friends sing as they walked home from choir practice?
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"You Are My Sunshine"
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Who were Helmuth and his friends stopped by as they walked home from choir practice?
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Junior Gestapo
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Where did Helmuth get the Rola radio?
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Black Market
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Why did Gerhard lock up the radio?
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It could endanger his family
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What were the three words that Helmuth thought over and over when the guards came to the cell?
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As thou wilt
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What radio station did Helmuth listen to each night?
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British Broadcasting Co.-BBC
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What was unique about the BBC radio station?
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Aired German language edition of the news
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What did Helmuth discover about the BBC radio station?
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More truthful, more accurate
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What was the title of Helmuth's thesis?
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"The War of the Plutocrats"
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What is a plutocracy?
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Government controlled by the wealthy
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How did Helmuth feel about his thesis?
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It was a lie, not how he truly felt
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Where did Helmuth work after graduation?
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Bieberhaus-social welfare dept. at City Hall
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What did Helmuth find in the basement storeroom at the City Hall?
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Books by forbidden authors
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What American authors' books were in the City Hall storeroom?
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Jack London
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What was the title of the book Helmuth borrowed from the storeroom?
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"Geist and Tat" (Spirit and Action) by Heinrich Mann
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Wo was Helmuth's boss at his apprentice job?
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Heinrich Mohns
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Where did Helmuth keep the book?
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Under his mattress
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Who was the first person to see the forbidden book?
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Rudi
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what did Helmuth tell Rudi that he wanted?
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Spirit and action
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Who was Hitler's closest friend?
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Rudolph Hess
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Rudolph Hess was in a British jail after his desertion. How did Helmuth know about this?
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From the BBC
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What did the BBC call the desertion of Rudolph Hess?
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The greatest escape in history
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Who was the first person to listen to the radio with Helmuth?
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Karl
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What did Helmuth tell Karl about his feelings for the Nazi's?
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He hated them for telling himm what to think
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What was the title of Helmuth's essay for the flyer?
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"Who Is Lying"
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Why did Helmuth wait to have Rudi and Karl listen to the radio together?
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For their protection
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What was the last line of Helmuth's flyer?
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"This is a chain letter, plese pass it on"
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What was Helmuth's plan for the leaflets?
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To place them in phone booths, mailboxes
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Why did Helmuth feel that they wouldn't get caught?
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No one would suspect kids
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What made Helmuth more determined to continue his misson?
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the return of Bro. Worbs
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Why were Jews made to wear stars?
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So Germans could keep an eye on them
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How did Helmuth recognize Bro. Worbs?
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His profile-his nose
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What was Br. Worbs answer for what they could do to stop the Gestapo?
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Pray for them
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Who was Gerhard Duwer?
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Apprentice at work
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What did Helmuth hope to accomplish with the leaflets?
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To wake up Germany
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What was Werner Kranz doing that got Helmuth's attention?
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Jotting down French vocabulary words
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Where did the Gestapo pick up Helmuth?
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At work
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Who gave the Gestapo information about Helmuth's leaflets?
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Gerhard Duwer
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What was Helmuth guilty of?
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High treason
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When was Helmuth sentenced to death?
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October 27, 1942 after 8 p.m.
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What was Helmuth's final request?
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To write letters to his family
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What was Helmuth's response to the evidence against him?
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He took full responsibility
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What did Helmuth promise?
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Not to name Rudi and Karl
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What was the name of the highest, most feared court in Germany
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The Blood Tribunal
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Why did Helmuth enrage the judge?
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To save his friends from death after realizing that they would not be charged as juveniles
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What is Helmuth's older half-brother's name?
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Hans
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What does Helmuth call his grandparents?
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Oma and Opa
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What is the name of the German Reich station?
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RRG
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What does "Guten Tag" mean in English?
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good day
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What is the name of the Hitler Youth group?
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the Jungvolk
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What does it mean to be "Judenfrei?"
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Jew-free
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What are members of Hitler's private army called?
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SA (storm troopers)
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What is Helmuth's favorite type of cake?
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plum cake
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What does Hitler warn could destroy the Fatherland?
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communism
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While incarcerated, what does Helmuth use to "scrape" himself?
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cut-up newspaper squares with Hitler's name on them
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What award did Herr Seligmannn recieve when he fought in the Great War?
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the Iron Cross
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What color paint do the Germans use to paint the word "Jew" on the walls and windows?
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yellow
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Why did the storm troopers batter and kick Herr Seligmann outside of his shop?
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because he was trying to wash his windows free of yellow paint of slurs
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What American genre of movies does Helmuth love?
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western
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Who does Gerhard claim is Hitler's favorite author?
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Karl May
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What is Mutti's boyfriend's name?
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Hugo Hubener
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Hugo's uniform has a blue collar insignia that says he is a Rottenfuhrer. What does that mean?
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He is a noncommissioned corporal
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The Volksempfunger VE 301 radio was what all Germans owned. What did the 301 stand for?
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January 30, the day Hitler became the German's leader
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Where does Hugo move the family to?
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A first-floor apartment at Sachsenstrasse 42
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What is the name of the middle school at Brackdamm that Helmuth attends in 1938?
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Oberbau
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What is Helmuth's new teacher's name at Oberbau?
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Herr Vinke
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When Helmuth gives the wrong answer in regards to drowning vs. dropping the German flag, Herr Vinke requires all the students to write a 500 page essay. What is the title of the essay?
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Adolf Hitler, Savior of the Fatherland
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Gerhard takes classes at the Technicum. What is he studying?
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electrical engineering
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Gerhard works at the MutzenFabrik. What product do they make at the factory?
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stiff military hats, the kind with the visor in front
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Hans works at the dockyards. What does he do there?
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He is a shipbuiding apprentice
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Helmuth signs that he is 100 percent Aryan. How many generations does he say he has to prove it?
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six generations
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Helmuth likes certain things about the Jungvolk. Name one.
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weekend hiking, camping trips and The HJ-Streifendienst, a patrol force whose members act as junior Gestapo
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What do Rudi and Helmuth name their detective agency, which they put on a small card?
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Lord Lister Detective Agency
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What is the name of the inspector Rudi and Helmuth go see?
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Inspector Herr Becker
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In what month and on what day does the Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, shoot a Nazi official in Paris?
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7-Nov
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The Reich passes a law intended to protect the Fatherland from lies and other enemy propaganda; it states that listening to foreign radio stations is forbidden. What is it called?
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The Extraordinary Radio Law
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What month and day do Mutti and Hugo get married?
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September, Tuesday
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What American song does Helmuth sing to egg on the HitlerYouth patrol?
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"You Are My Sunshine"
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As 1940 ends, the Nazis have overrun 7 countries. Name 3.
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Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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When Brother Worbs prays, what does he compare the Nazis to?
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butchers
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What type of radio does Gerhard bring home and how much did he pay for it?
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A Rola shortwave radio, 5,250 francs or 25 marks
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What does the word "verboten" mean?
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forbidden
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What does BBC stand for?
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British Broadcasting Company
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According to the BBC newscaster, how many tons of merchant vessels did German battleships and submarines sink from March 16th through March 23rd?
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367,800 tons
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What was the title of Helmuth's paper which Herr Meins says stands out from the rest?
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The War of the Plutocrats
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Upon graduating from Oberbau, where does Helmuth get a job?
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The Bieberhaus, the social welfare department at the City Hall
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The narrator names several authors who are banned in Germany. Name 3.
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Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Heinrich Heine, Erich Maria Remarque, Karl Marx and Jack Londonn
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What is the name of the book Helmuth takes from the basement and puts under his shirt to "borrow?" Who is the author?
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Geist und Tat, Spirit and Action by Heinrich Mann
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Who was Hitler's closest friend and third-highest Nazi?
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Rudolf Hess
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What is Leberwurst?
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liver sausage
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What does Duwer (Helmuth's new friend from work) tell him he can do to help with his pamphlets?
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He knows two printing apprentices in Kiel who can print pamphlets after hours.
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On what day and time do the two Gestapo agents come to take Helmuth from his work?
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February 5th at two-thirty
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What color and make of car do the Gestapo agents take Helmuth away in?
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A black Mercedes
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What was Helmuth found guilty of?
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listening to a foreign radio station and distributing the news heard in connection with conspiracy to commit high treason
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What was Helmuth's sentence?
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He was sentenced to death and the loss of civil rights during his lifetime
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What day and time was Helmuth's execution planned?
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October 27, 1942 at 8 p.m.
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Where do the Gestapo transport Helmuth to?
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Concentration Camp Fuhlsbuttel
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Where is Helmuth's trial held?
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The People's Court in Berlin
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During his trial, what does Helmuth call the judges?
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liars
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What does Helmuth reminesce about right before he is executed?
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Mutti tucking him in, his brothers, the white pillows and the moonlight
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What is the first date recorded by Helmuth?
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27-Oct-42
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Where is he?
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Death Row Plotzensee Prison Berlin, Germany
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Where does Helmuth live in 1928?
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Luisenweg, the Hammerbrook street in Hamburg Germany.
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What are Helmut'hs brother's names?
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Hans who is 8 and is 5 yrs. older than Helmuthand Gerhard, who is 7 and is 4ys older
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Who lives in the flat next door to Helmuth's family?
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His maternal grandparents, Opa and Oma.
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What type of adventure novels does Helmuth read?
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Karl May Western Adventure novels
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What are the the 3 political parties in the election Oma is talking about?
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The Communists, the Social Democrats, and the Nazis.
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What does Oma call Hitler?
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A warmonger and a lunatic
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What announcement does Helmouth hear at school on January 30, 1933?
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Hitler has been elected as the leader of the Chancellor of Germany.
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What group of older boys who shout, "Heil Hitler" belong to?
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Jungfolk or the Hitler Youth
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What do the Hitler Youth want?
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Judenfrei or Jew free school yard.
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What is it that most Germans blame all Germany's problems on?
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The Treaty of Versilles
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Who is the Jewish boy Helmuth knows
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Benno Seligmann
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What religion is Helmuth?
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A Mormon and belongs to the Church of Latter Day Saints
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What is Hitler's private army called?
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The SA or Storm troopers
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What is Helmuth's mother's name?
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Mutti ( Emma)
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What dinner do Helmuth's family eat to celebrate Hitler's victory?
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Sausage and onions, sauerkraut, potato dumplings, and plum KUCHEN
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Where does Mutti work?
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A nursing home.
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What is the radio station Helmuth and his family listen to?
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The RRG or Reich Station
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What is Helmuth scared of as he listens to Hitler's speeches on the radio?
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The Communist will over take the fatherland.
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What type of bird does Helmuth dream about?
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The sparrow. Mutti says it leads the soul to Heaven
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What is the emergency that allows Hitler to take over Germany
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The Reichstag burns and he says the Communist are behind it. He declares an emergency decree taking people's freedoms.
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What is the name of Helmuth's grandparent's friend and how does he feel about Hitler.
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His name is Brother Worbs and he accuses Hitler of burning the Reichstag.
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Why did most Germans vote for Hitler?
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They thought the NAZIs where the best protection against the Communist.
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What type of uniform does Herr Zeiger, Helmuth's teacher wear?
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An SA uniform
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What does Herr Zeiger think say about the Jews?
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That Jewish businesses must be boycotted to save the Fatherland.
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What does Herr Zeigler say to Benno?
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Jews are traitors to Germany
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What happens to Benno after his altercation with Herr Zeiger?
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He is transferred to the Jewish school.
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What happens when Helmuth goes to the Jewish bakery owned by Herr Kaltenbach
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He finds the SA, Hitler Youth and the SS are there painting, DON"T BUY FROM JEWS, on the windows.
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Who does Helmuth see across the street?
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Benno Seligmann's father, wearing his WW I uniform. He is beat up by soliders for trying to clean his windows off
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What does the news reel before the movie show?
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A huge bonfire, where students in Berlin are burning books from the university library
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What is Helmuth afraid will be banned next?
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His Karl May westerns, so he hides his books away.
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Who is Mutti's new boyfriend?
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Hugo Hubnener a corporal in the SS
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What does Hugo do with the old radio?
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Turns it in for a new radio called, The People's Receiver VE 301. The number 301 stands for January 30th, the day Hitler became the leader of Germany
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After moving into the apartment, what does Hugo decide the family needs to do?
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He moves them to a new apartment because he says all Germans need Lebensraum, or living space
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Where does the family move to?
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A first floor apartment at Sachsenstrausse 42.
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When does Helmuth graduate from primary school?
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In 1938, he then goes to the middle school in Brackdamm.
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What do the boys shout when someone enters the classroom?
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Heil Hitler
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What is his new teacher's name?
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Herr Vinkle
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What does Herr Vinkle say is a solider's greatest honor?
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To die for your country
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What is the subject of the essay the class must write as a punishment for Helmuth's questioning?
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Adolf Hitler, Savior of the Fatherland
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What is Gerhard now studying?
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Electrical engerneering at Technicum
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How does Gerhard feel about the assignment
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He says the essay mocks god because it makes a "God" out of Hitler.
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Why does the SS officer come to Helmuth's school to do?
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Sign up Hitler Youth
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How does Helmuth have to prove he is 100% Aryan?
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He has to have documentation from 6 generations to prove he is Aryan.
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Who is Helmuth's best friend?
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Rudi Wobbe
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What do the boys decide to do together?
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Become detectives for unsolved crimes in their area.
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What is the title of the book that gives them this idea?
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Lord Lister, genannt raffles der grosse Unbekannte.
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What do they name their new detective agency?
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LORD LISTER DETECTIVE AGENCY
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What is the first crime they try to solve?
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A murder of a street walker in Rothenburgsort
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Who does Inspector Becker arrest with the boy's help for the crime?
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Franz Seeman
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Who visits Rudi after the incident
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The Gestapo
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What are the police doing to the Polish Jews?
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Cramming them into trains and shipping them back to Poland.
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What starts the violence Helmuth witnesses againt the Jews?
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A Nazi officer, Ernst vom Roth, is allegedly killed by a Jewish boy.
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After Germany invades Poland, what law is passed?
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The Extraordinary Radio Law that forbids Germans to listen to foreign radio broadcasts
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After France and England declare war on Germany, what falls from the sky?
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Propaganda leaflets telling the German people that their leaders have condemned the to 'massacres, miseries, and privations of a war they can never hope to win"
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What happens the day of Mutti and Hugo's wedding?
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Gerhard, Helmuth and Hugo argue about the Nazis and their atrocities.
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What happens that shocks the boys and makes them start to see the dangers of the war?
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Hamburg is bombed by the British.
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After the Germans take over France what does Gerhard get in the mail that summer?
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Papers from the Mandatory Reich Labor Service
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Why are Karl, Rudi and Helmuth stoped by the Junior Gestapo?
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They were singing an American song, "You are My Sunshine."
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As 1940 ends and Hitler's victories spread across Europe, what rumors do the German people start to hear?
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They begin to hear about large Jewish work camps being built in Poland.
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What does Gerhard bring home with him while he is waiting for his draft orders?
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A shortwave radio, he pays 25 marcs for on the black market.
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Where does Gerhard hide the radio?
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He locks it in a closet at Oma's with his belongings and warns Helmuth not to listen to it.
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Where does Hans work?
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At the shipyard building submarines.
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When Helmuth sneaks the radio out of the closet what program does he listen to?
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The British Broadcasting Company, BBC, in German.
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What shocks Helmuth in the first broadcast he listens to?
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The honesty of the BBC's report that the Germans had sunk many Brittish ships. He notes the RRG never reports German defeats.
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What does Heir Meins do that makes Helmuth feel uneasy?
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He reads the thesis paper Helmuth wrote titled,"The War of the Plutocrats."
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Where does Helmuth find work after graduation?
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The Bieberhaus, the social welfare department at city hall.
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What does he discover in the basement?
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Rows and rows of banned books by famous foriegn authors and Germans who thought differently than the Nazis.
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What does Helmuth share with Rudi one night?
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A book written by Heinrich Mann that he stole from the basement.
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Where is Brother Worbs sent after he is arrested for stating his opinion about a Nazi statue?
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Neuengamme, a concentation camp near Hamburg.
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What does Helmuth say in response to hearing the Germans have attaciked Russia?
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No one in history has ever defeated Russia and this will spread the German army too thin.
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Who is the first person Helmuth decides to share his secret raidio with?
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Karl who tells him he sounds like one of the bloody pamplets
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Who does he invite to listen to the radio next?
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Rudi
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Why does Helmuth keep Rudi and Karl from listening to the BBC broadcast together?
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To protect them in case one of them decides to turn Helmuth into the Nazis.
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How does Helmuth decide to serve the Fatherland
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He makes up hundreds of pamplets telling the Germans the truth about the war and the concentration camps
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What is the last line on each flier?
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"This is a chain letter, so please pass it on!"
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The boys agree to fight the Nazis together. Why do they feel if they are caught their punishment will not be as harsh?
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Because they are all under 18 and will not be tried as adults.
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Why does Helmuth agree to take Hugo's last name Hubener?
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Because Hugo is a good Nazi and that will throw suspsion away from him.
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Where do the boys put the pamplets Helmuth types?
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telephone booths, on bulletin boards, in tenement hallways, mailboxes etc.
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What does Helmuth add to the fliers to make them look like an official government document?
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The stamp of the swastika?
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What happens to renew Helmuth's mission to inform the German people of what is really happening?
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Brother Worb's returns with and tells Helmuth about the atocities being committed in the concentration camps.
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What does Gerhard Duwer tell Helmuth to help him make more pamplets?
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He knows two printing press apprentices.
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Who does Helmuth tell next about his pamplet and how does he react?
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Werner Kranz and he says he is too busy to help Helmuth.
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What happens at 2:30 on february 5th?
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Two Gestapo agents come to Helmuth's work and arrest him.
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What is the date Helmuth is found guilty of listening to a foreign radio station, and distributing the news heard in connection with conspiracy to commit high treason and treasonable support of the enemy.
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11-Aug-42
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What is his sentence?
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He sentenced to death and loses his civil rights for his lifetime.
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What are his last requests?
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They are to write letters to his family
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What is Helmuth accused of first by Officer Mussner?
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Putting the leaflets out around town.
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Who turned Helmuth into the authorities?
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Gerhard Duwer
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What does Helmuth do to protect his friends?
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He takes full responsibility for the crime.
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What things do the police find as they search Oma and Opa's apartment?
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The Rola radio, a pile of assorted leaflets, notebooks, manuscripts of handbills, the Remington typewriter, with carbon sheets stuck in the cartridge rollers.
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Where is Helmut transported?
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Concentration Camp Fuhlsbuttel north of Hamburg
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What is the Gestapo's nickname for the interrogation room?
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The Hall of Mirrors
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After being beaten and tortured what does Helmouth finally do?
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He gives Karl and Rudi''s names to the authorities.
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How does Helmuth warn Karl that the Gestapo knows he is guilty?
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Barely winks at him
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What court are the three young men tried in?
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The People's Court of Berlin or the Blood tribunal, the highest most feared court in Germany
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What does Duwer mouth to Helmuth and what is his response?
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Duwer: I am sorry Helmuth: Me too
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What does Helmuth tell Rudi and Karl on the prisoner transport train?
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"I am sorry. I tried to hold out."
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As the questioning and testimony unfold, what does Helmuth realize?
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They are being tried as adults.
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What does Helmuth do to convince the court he is the ring leader of the group?
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Calls the Nazis government liars, and doubts the German's ability to win the war
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What does Fiekes use to convince the court Helmuth is no average boy?
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His senior essay, The War of Plutocrats
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What are the punishments for the other boys?
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Rudi Wobbe- conspiracy to commit high treason, 10 years
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Karl Schnibbe Five years
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Gerhard Duwer four years
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When asked if he had anything to say at his sentencing, Helmuth says what?
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"All I did was tell the truth and you sentenced me to die! My time has come now but your time will come!"
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Where was Gerhard when he received Helmuth's letter and what did he do with it?
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He was in Russia. He destroyed the letter, but memorized it.
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What happened to Gerhard?
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He was demoted and court marshalled . He was a highly decorated German solider
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What happened to Oma, Opa, and Mutti?
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They were killed in massive bombing attacks on Hamburg
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