helmuth hubener
"I just want the German people to think...don't you think everybody in
Hamburg is entitled to know the truth?"
-Helmuth Hubener, leader of the Helmuth Hubener group
Source: Hitler Youth
Hamburg is entitled to know the truth?"
-Helmuth Hubener, leader of the Helmuth Hubener group
Source: Hitler Youth
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The Helmuth Hubener group contained three members, all under 20 years of age. Helmuth lived in Hamburg, Germany during the Third Reich. Hubener along with his friends; Karl-Heinz Schnibbe and Rudolf Wobbe, began listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation on a Rola Radio late at night. "When he got this short wave radio, he realized that he had a chance now to hear information that wasn't from the government; and as he listens to BBC, he is immediately convinced that they are telling the truth."
-Douglas F. Tobler, German history and holocaust professor Source: Truth and Conviction The group began producing and distributing leaflets saying what they learned on BBC as well as their thoughts.
"Helmuth used the typewriter in his home...for leaflets. The paper he got from his office, government paper, and Helmuth had a little stamp from his office, the swastika with the eagle, and he used that on leaflets and stamped it as official Nazi party paper."
-Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, member of Helmuth Hubener group Source: Truth and Conviction |
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"Helmuth said...'let's make a promise, he who get's caught first, takes the blame, don't incriminate anybody'" -Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, member of Helmuth Hubener group Source: Truth and Conviction On February 4, 1942, Gestapo agents came to Helmuth's work. He had been reported by a suspicious coworker and was immediately arrested.
"Well, you know they tortured Helmuth, my friend, really, really terribly...
but in order to let go a little bit, he gave names and that was us." -Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, member of Helmuth Hubener group Source: Truth and Conviction |
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Helmuth took all the blame, however his friends were arrested along with Gerhard Duwer who was thinking of joining the group. Later on, they appeared before the People's Court. Helmuth was sentenced to execution. Karl-Heinz Schnibbe was sentenced to five years of hard labor, Rudolf Wobbe ten years, and Gerhard Duwer four.
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"But Helmuth was not so naive, to believe that we would bring the Nazis to their knees!
No, Helmuth wanted to make the people think."
-Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, member of Helmuth Hubener group
Source: Truth and Conviction
No, Helmuth wanted to make the people think."
-Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, member of Helmuth Hubener group
Source: Truth and Conviction