A youth in nazi Germany tells the truth about hitler. Bartoletti has taken one episode from her newbery honor book, and fleshed it out into a full novel. When 16-year-old helmut hubner listens to the bbc news on an illeg...A youth in nazi Germany tells the truth about hitler. Bartoletti has taken one episode from her newbery honor book, and fleshed it out into a full novel. When 16-year-old helmut hubner listens to the bbc news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people.