Status Updates From Daniel Half Human

book club duties

I made a huge mistake here😭. I was not reading this book at all. I confused this with The boy who dared (the book I actually read).

Looking at these pictures, he was such a baby. He should never have been tried period. And most certainly not as an adult.

But Helmuth, was smart, he stood for what he believed in and didn’t regret his choices at the end, even if some were not the best. He died doing the right thing, and at a young age, kept God at the centre of it all. Because of his choices, his friends and brothers got to live and move to America.

16 years old. Tried as an adult, tortured and starved. Executed. 16 years old. There’s no humanity in any of it. Hitler and every Nazi was devoid of if. Because you couldn’t hurt and kill people in that way and not be evil, rotten to the core. I hate it.

Karl recounted that Helmuth gave him a wink and a grin and that’s how he knew he kept his promise of taking the blame for them is so sweet and so sad. And because of that he knew what to do in his interrogation and got a shorter sentence than Rudi.

And after his execution they sent his mom a bill, for the his prison time, execution costs -whatever that means!!! And tv e cost to ship her the invoice, how outrageous. How cruel.

This being based on a true story is wild. And just a short while after he was executed his mom and grandparents were killed in a bombing. How sad.

Aw, he did save them. He went about the trial in such a way that got only himself sentenced to death while his friends got imprisonment. Still sucks, death for simply telling the truth in a desire for freedom. Broken world.

I know it’s not his fault. What they’ve done to him is so inhumane and disgusting. But he gave up his friends, got their names beaten out of him. I was really hoping he could hold out and save their lives.

Disgusting! Human beings. They are human beings and should have never been treated this way.

But Helmuth pushing his friends to break the law because his own convictions related to Hitler is a sticky one. Sure, change has got to come and it’s not going to happen by being nice and comfortable but also people who are ready can allow their fear to overturn a revolution.

And what a wrong the German government is committing against the families of those young men who are dying on the frontlines of an unnecessary war by lying about victories that have not happened!!