When one reads about all those brave people, who stood up against all odds to protect what they believed in and what they thought was right, we also like to imagine that we would act the same way, dying for what we belief and protecting the ones we love. But this is hardly ever the case, since all human beings have one huge urge, the urge to "please" other people, to make them happy, and only a few of us have the power to overcome this urge, which can both be seen as something good or something bad. Nowadays it is easier to overcome it, we live in a world with good education for almost anyone, and we would be fouls to not use it this education to help the people that aren't able to get. But sadly we are fouls, corrupted by the greed and the hunger for always more power, we want things which aren't necessary. This was always the case, today and in the past, and while it is normal today to demonstrate for what you believe in, in a time like 1934 it was completely different all across the world. The Internet is a huge reason, as to why we are so informed today and have access to such huge amounts of information so easily. But in the past this was different, and we were more naïve and easier influenced by everything around us. Now you are thinking that something like that wouldn't happen to us, that we are way to educated for what happened in the past, to fall for that. But as long as group pressure, the always existing urge to please people exist and our hunger for power, we we will have to see that the chances of us being one of those independent revolutionist or freedom fighters, will therefore be small. The people this book is about thought they would, could become some of these people, fighting for the "right side", if one could say there is, protecting those which needed protection and so on. What they had forgotten was the urge to please others, was deeper penetrated into their minds than they thought. There are many things they would have to learn, like for example, when oneself reaches power, the brain losses it and with more power the border between right and wrong gets thinner and thinner, before it will eventually cease to exist and oneself emerges into the depths of madness. They will have to learn that, as well as we do, that one is never truly doing the right thing, being free and pleasing everybody, and save at the same time. As a human being I can say with a certainty, that most of use would choose the lazier option. What the lazier options is,is yours to decide, just as they will.

I never thought it was true that before one dies, that one would see all of his life replay before his own eyes. But here I am in a situation I never thought I would ever be in. Although I'm pretty sure no one ever really expects to be kneeling on the dirty floor with a gun pointed to the back of their head, in his lifetime. How I got into this position is a long story, a story about 11 friends who wished for the wrong thing at the wrong moment and well we got into a little bit of trouble along the way. We lost our way many times before and throughout the war, we had our ups and downs, eventhough there were more downs than ups. But before this gets to depressing, let's dive right into the story of how we were sent to the past to learn one important thing. To appreciate what you have and be careful of what you wish for. My name is Nemephis and this how everything turned to shit.

It was shortly after 3' o clock in the morning on a Friday, me and my 10 Friends were sitting on a balcony of a small Apartment in Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg gazing at the stars. All of us had meet eachother that fateful day to celebrate our achievments. All of us had achieved different things. Some of us achieved bigger things than others, but that lies in the eye of the person asking for our achievemends. I for example just finished the last exam in this term of my studies for fashion design, while my other good friend I know of Hitsuji, just finished her doctor title in whatever. It's a long word, I don't really know. So you see slight differences between our achievments. But that's because all 11 of us have different standards in what we think is satisfying and the reason for that is that we are all very different, but that is exactly what they like about eachother, I know sound cliché but just listen for a second. Each one of my friends holds a different cultural background. We are from different countries, we grew up differentley and when we first meet all of us hardly spoke the same language. There is a saying in German, which roughly translate to 'opposites attract' and I think in our case this saying fits pretty good. Since there are so many differences between all of us you can imagine that there usually is never a quiet moment in our group.

But as we were gazing at the stars no-one said a word. All of us were mesmerized by them, how the glowed and shined, how their whole existence just seemed to pull us in so much that not even the Russian twins, a girl and a boy who usually argue about some stupied conspiracy theorie,the russian government or anything that they disagree on, if they don't gang up on you, said a thing. It was also completley quiet from the usually so hyperactiv Norwegian, who always has to get shut up by his in comparision calm Icelandic Girlfriend. There wasn't even any scottish speaking english heard from the reservered and wise Korean's Girlfriend, who you can usually always hear complaining about the German weather or the British.

Not even the two girls from Canada and Brazilian who would usually bring a small smile on everyones face with their cheerful attitudes and silliness, except if you're at the end of their receiving list of sassines. Even the usual sassy Japanese, tired German, that's me, and shy American who if they'd want to could make you feel bad about yourself in one sentence. Well that at least counts for the first two girls. The American boy could literally never even hurt as much as a fly. He's just to cute and pure, like an angel.

And even though all of us are usually so loud and different in charakter. In this moment, we were all the same. There was not one of us muttering a single word. It was completely quiet, almost scarily quiet, as the only thing one could hear was the howling of the wind and the soft breaths of everyone while we huddled together on the balcony in the cold summer night of Berlin for warmth.

All of us looking into sky, waiting as if something was about to happen. Which must have looked ridiculous, If you were a person that saw us and would have walked past our balcony and looked up. I mean, just imagine 11 people on a small balcony which was hardly big enough to hold all of us, not talking, just akwardly starring into the sky as if we were looking for something we lost. But since it was so late, I think it was safe to say that even if people walked by, I don't think they were sober enough to look up without falling over.

But as time past even all 11 of us had to admit that we were getting more and more tired by the minutes and could hardly keep our eyes open. So it was decided in an unspoken agreement, that all us should retire for the night and get a good nights sleep, well if can consider one or two hours of sleep enough and if not, then you just had to life with it. Since the following morning we had to get ready for our daily lifes of getting up and going back to work, school, university or where ever else we ha to be. While all of us headed back into the Apartment, one after the other, in hopes of falling asleep, as every single one of us wished, while passing through the frame of the balcony door 'That they could escape their boring everyday lifes and routines, and just get some change and action'. What we haddened seen was, when the last of us 11 stepped through the door frame, the single glowing shooting star that swooshed across the sky, behind our backs. This one shooting star would seal our fate and would make us soon come to regret our wish come true. For know we didn't know what our future held in store for us, as all 11 of us had settled down, on the huge sleeping couch in the living, where after a lot of talking and shut the f- ups, we finally closed ours eyes and fell asleep. Still not knowing that the next morning would be more different than all of us could have expected it to be like. I mean I expected and I guess the other too, to wake up the next morning next to eachother, get ready and go start the day like almost every single day before that day. But as you can imagine this was not about to happen. We were in for a real surprise, you can say life had something different for every single on of us planned and in store.

So you could get guess that beeing thrown back in time wasn't our first guess or choice, and clearly no one had been expecting to be thrown back in times 84 years and scattered all over the globe to our respective home nations. I mean 2018 minus 84 years, that's like all the way into 1934, that's like a lifetime ago. A time completely different from ours, a time which was still recovering from the shook and problems of the great depression and lets just say the rise of the German Nazi Party, a year prior, didn't help to that.

Now I think it is a good time to introduce my 10 friends and me, while all of us are starting to wake up in our home countrys in 1934. Let's make our way all across the globe and watch every single one of them react to the surprise that awaits them. Since I don't know the exact details of what happened for every single one of them, while they were in their respective countrys waking up or after that. I think it's best if every single one of us tells their own story.

Our first country that we will visit, will be no other country, than the USA. America First. Lets start just a half n' hour train ride outside of Chicago.

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