Facts about the story's setting
The story takes place mostly in Germany, more specifically in Berlin. Berlin has some interesting history about it, like it is Germany's capitol. In WW11, the city was wrecked and demolished. After WW11, the city and Germany was split in to fours by the Allies, that included the U.S., France, Great Britian, And Russia.It is the home of the Berlin Wall, which if you attempted to cross, you would suffer the consequences (such as being shot). At the time, the leader of Germany was Adolf Hitler, and he was allies with Italy and Japan. People of Germany lost some of their rights that everyone should be entitled to, such as they were only allowed to read and listen to German stations/books only. Helmuth Hubner, the main character, was forced to join the Hitler Youth, and he spoke out against Hitler through writing because he was also forced to agree with Hitler like everyone else in Germany and he felt the Nazi's rules were unfair.