The red balloon
The story is of a young boy in nazi occupied France. The boy is suffering the oppression given to the french people by the Germans and is unhappy, until one day he finds a red balloon which he takes everywhere with him.
The balloon becomes like a friend to him and he even takes it to school with him. During the time Nazi propaganda and rhetoric was being forced upon school students and they didnt like the boy having a balloon as it symbolised freedom.
One day when the boy is walking home from school the Gestapo come and burst his balloon the boy is very upset at losing his ballooon and friend until he looks up at the sky and sees hundreds of balloons coming down to where he is standing and it startles the gestapo, it later turns out that it is not a sky full of balloons but a sky full of british paratroopers from which the gestapo are running