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It is time for Helmuth and his friends to face the judge. Helmuth completely goes against the judge and says that "Germany's leaders are liars." Helmuth is now sentenced to death.

Helmuth is finally caught. The police arrest him and ransack his house with his grandparents home. He is sent to a concentration camp where is now interrogated terribly who else he was spreading this enemy propaganda with.

Helmuth's brother (Hugo) brings home a foreign radio that they absolutely cannot tune into or they will get arrested. Hugo locks it away but Helmuth opens it up and listens to it. He brings his friends over every other day to listen to the BBC at night and hear true statistics about the war. Brother Worbs from the church returns as well from the concentration camp. He has come back terribly tortured.

Helmuth and his friend Rudi want to actually do something about the current crime happening around their area of Hamburg. They end up getting somebody but Helmuth feels wrong about it as he isn't sure if it really was him. Also, a 13 year old jew shot a soldier and sent him to a hospital for a few days. The soldier dies and outrage ensues and Germany's hatred for Jews strengthens.

Helmuth attends his first day of middle school and questions something about a German Soldier's loyalty and the teacher ends up giving the entire class a 500-word essay about how "great" Hitler is. His feelings are just torn now and he is arguing with himself.

Helmuth Hubener is a lying in a room with memories of his past