The majority of The Boy Who Dared takes place in Nazi Germany. The leader of Germany during this time is Adolf Hitler. In Nazi, Germany, when Hitler came to power, Nazis took over and began to strip away everyone’s rights and freedoms. They began to make crazy laws such as not being allowed to listen to foreign radio stations. Jews began to be humiliated by the German people. This is also where the night of the broken glass took place, when Nazis went around trashing Jewish businesses and breaking windows. All these events are what led to the mass murder of Jews, or in other words, what we, today, call the Holocaust. many during this time is Adolf Hitler. Helmuth and his friends were Hitler worshipers and supported what he did until they found out he had been lying to everyone the whole time. As citizens that knew the truth, they felt like it was their duty to reveal it.