END: can't help, but make it out alive

It's enough of a struggle still feeding her own family, so Mrs. Braun insists that she is unable to help the Rabbi. The Rabbi understands, and decides to go wandering in attempt to find a different hiding place. Everyone feels bad about the situation, but there's not much that they're able to do in the middle of World War 2. 

You Win, sort of. You weren't able to help out the Rabbi, but in the end there's just so much a family can do. the Liebermans successfully stay in hiding for a couple more years and eventually escape to Sweden. The fate of the Brauns is unknown as the war enters Berlin itself, but this is the best available ending of the adventure. World war 2 was a terrible war that unnecessarily took countless lives, whether people tried to stop that or not. 

END: try to help, but everyone loses

The following day, Mrs. Braun repeats her daily walk with some more bread and cheese in her jacket than usual. As expected, the policeman is strolling the streets where he always does as Mrs. Braun walks bye. She says hi, glad that nothing is suspicious yet. Before she could finish her thought though, a loaf of bread had fallen from underneath her coat and right infront of the officer's feet! Trying to blow it off, Mrs. Braun quickly grabs the bread and starts walking, but the cop buys none of it. He handcuffs her and demands that she take him to where she was taking the food, otherwise he was authorized to kill her. She leads the policeman to the hiding place and reveals the Liebermans and Rabbi, who are mortified upon being revealed. The police later enter the Braun apartment and arrest Father Braun and his kids, and in the end both families find themselves on a box car to Saschsenhausen, a local concentration camp.
You lose! Good on you for trying to help people in need, but in the end that costed your family their future as they are treated as poorly as the Jews once convicted. The Nazis had little tolerance if any, and sadly theirs ran out before they caught you. There are two other endings though, if you'd like to replay

END: become the Nazi, Liebermans suffer

Fed up with the Liebermans and the war, Mr. Braun doesn't talk to the Liebermans for a while. One day Mr. Lieberman comes over to talk, but Father Braun screams at him in his doorway about how he has caused his business to fail and is the reason for this horrible war. Real cold hearted stuff. Hurt, Mr. Lieberman apologizes and hustles back to his apartment. Peter Braun, Mr. Braun's youngest son, watched the event and the next day shared it to his teacher at school.
Later that week, the SS storm through the Apartment. Without any justification other than brute force, they take the Liebermans and trash their apartment. They are taken to a transfer camp to be prepared to go to some labor camp in east Germany.
You lost! You became bitter from the war and lost hope in the future, and let that in turn cause the Liebermans to be sent to an unknown fate at a camp. You might want to try again, this ending is one of the worse ones.

Out of the party; playing hide and seek

The year is 1939, and Jews are being deported en mass from Berlin to concentration camps. The Brauns have been helping hide Mr. and Mrs. Lieberman in a shed near their house- their kids were sent up North to be safe from the Nazis. It's been a couple months since the incident with the Spielsons, and Mr. Braun's textile factory is doing pretty bad. 
Mrs. Braun is walking her daily walk, and wearing a large coat to hold food in as she goes to visits the Liebermans. This has become a regular trek, and isn't very suspicious. After arriving at the hidden entrance to the secret compartment in the shed, Mrs. Braun is surprised to see the local Rabbi in the hiding place as well! The Liebermans understand her confusion, and humbly attempt to ask her if she could start bringing more food to help feed the Rabbi. Mrs. Braun [tries her hardest to explain that she can barely feed her own kids already, and that it would be too much effort to feed him too]
ooooor, she [gives in, accepting to feed the Rabbi too]

Soooo Mancala's sort of canceled

Surely the Liebermans don't mind if Mancala night is moved to later in the week, at least Mr. Braun thinks. Mrs. Braun cooks up a nice glazed ham in preparation for the Spielsons to arrive, and as she's pooling it out of the oven the Spielsons arrive at the door. The families greet and introduce, and then everyone is seated around the dinner table in prayer. Mr. Braun asks Mr. Spielson if he would like to give the prayer, but before he can speak *knock knock knock* -the door opens- Mr. Lieberman enters the room, confused about Mancala night.
Mr. Spielson asks, "Why is a Jew interrupting my supper prayer?"
"Oh my, I was just coming over for Mancala night; us and the Brauns do this every Saturday" shared mr. Lieberman. Horrified, Mr. Spielson gets up, and directs his family to leave this home immediately. At the door, Mr. Spielson yells that, "You shall not come to the next NSDAP meeting, Mr. Braun!"
Mr. Braun, left with the awkward situation of having a glazed ham on the table and a hungry family wanting to eat, decides to [forgive Mr. Lieberman, and not care about his removal from the NSDAP]

Keeping tradition with friends

Mr. Braun ends up continuing with the plans for Mancala, while Mrs. Braun is upset that she can't make glazed ham for the Spielsons. The Liebermans come over. Mr and Mrs. Lieberman play Mancala with the Brauns, while their children entertain themselves waiting for supper. During a really intense part of the Mancala match, everyone hears something

*knock knock knock*

"Someones at the door" Mr. Braun gets up to open the door, revealing Mr. Spielson to be the knocking culprit! Spielson begins to speak, but his jaw is left agape and silent when he notices the Yellow stars on the Liebermans clothing. 

"I-I- think it would be best i-if you didn't come to the next NSDAP meeting, mr. Braun" uttered Spielson, as he walked out the door. 

"Mr. Braun, I'm so sorr- "

"It's okay, Mr. Lieberman. I didn't enjoy the religious attitude of the meetings anyway" Father Braun tried thinking positively.

[Mr. Braun then kicks out the Liebermans, without even finishing the game of Mancala] 

or, [the Liebermans are allowed to stay to finish Mancala and eat supper]

Father Braun joins the Nazis

Tight on cash, Mr. Braun gives in and decides to join the Nazi party so he can keep making money and supporting his family. He registers, goes to the next meeting, and makes lots of good business connections that will keep his textile factory afloat. The Nazi party has terrible ideals, but they make life good, and the Brauns like that. Mr. Braun also noticed that his neighbor, Mr. Spielson, is a longtime Nazi member. Tonight is usually Mancala night with Mr. Lieberman, but Mr. Braun also wants to invite his neighbor Mr. Spielson over. Should Mr. Braun [Invite Mr. Spielson over for dinner, and possibly make more business connections?]

or should he [not ditch Mr. Lieberman and continue the plans for Mancala night?]

Father Braun denies the Nazis

The Braun family has been friends with the Liebermans since they both first moved into the same Apartment  building, and Mr. Braun didn't want to damage that friendship by joining the Nazi party. He stuck to his morals and didn't join for monetary gain, but when he shares this decision with Mr. Lieberman one night while playing Mancala, the response is unexpected.

"Are you crazy?! You'll go poor if you don't join the Nazis!" Mr. Lieberman exclaims. "I don't take offense that you want to do what you can to help your family, if I could join the Nazi party I would too!" 

Mr. Braun is a bit shocked by Mr. Liebermans response, but decides to drop the subject for now and continue their game. A couple weeks pass, but one friday when Mr. Braun is at the bank he realizes his savings have depleted! Out of money, 

[Mr. Braun is forced to join the Nazi party]

Choice 1b: Stayin' in Germany

Hitler invades Poland, beginning World War 2. The marks that the two families had in savings are losing value every day, and times are getting a bit tough. Well it's not that bad now, but it will be soon. Mr. Braun is stressing because his textile factory is being forced by the government to make clothes for the military and is paying at a much lower rate than other customers. He is faced with the decision of joining the Nazi political party for the much needed economic benefits, even though he doesn't believe in its ideals, or not join the Nazi's and attempt to make do without the help of Hitler. 

After a long night of discussion, the Brauns decide to stay firm and continue living with Germany. The Liebermans come to their senses and realize how unrealistic it is to move to the United States. I mean really, it's not even a time of war! A few years pass an the Braun and Lieberman families age with time.
 -fast forward to 1937-

[Join the Nazi Party]

[Don't join the Nazi Party]

Choice 1a: Goin' to America

Congratulations, you win/lose! You chose such an unrealistic event that you had to have had foreknowledge of the upcoming events in Nazi Germany to ever pick this choice. Like many sources in our Facing History class have said, no one expected the Nazis to do what they did so no radical choices like moving to the US were ever made. On top of that, the Brauns are doing fine in Germany and have no reason to completely start over their lives.
You should probably go back to the start page and pick the other option.

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This is a Choose-your-own-Adventure style blog focused on a German family, the Brauns, which is good friends with the Jewish family living in their apartment, the Liebermans, during World War 2. Both families live in Berlin, Germany, and the year is 1933. With the passing of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, Mr. Lieberman loses his accounting firm and is forced to acquire a job working at mr. Braun's textile factory. One evening when the families are eating together, Mr. Lieberman brings up the news that one of his relatives in America extended an offer to help them move across the world to the United States. The parents discuss the ramifications for a long while, considering the Nazi's rise to power and their new laws. Mr. Lieberman admits that he would only decide to go if Mr. Braun did, and his decision was to:

[Leave with Mr. Lieberman to go to America and start a new life]
or, [Politely decline, and stay in Nazi Germany]