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Date of birth: January 8th, 1925, Hamburg, Germany
Date of execution: October 27th, 1942 (Age: 17)
The leader of the Helmuth Hübener group. He exposed the Nazis by sharing leaflets that he made on a typewriter.

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Date of birth: January 5th, 1924, Hamburg, Germany
Date of death: May 9th, 2010, Holladay, Utah
One of the survivors from Helmuth's group of rebel teens. At night, he put the leaflets in mailboxes and bulletin boards. During the resistance, he was an apprentice house painter.

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Date of birth: February 11th, 1926, Hamburg, Germany
Date of death: January 31th, 1992, Salt Lake City, Utah
The youngest member in their trio. He was skeptical at first, but he later joined Schnibbe in putting out flyers. They did this at night while narrowly avoiding troops of the Hitler Youth. At age 16, he was a locksmith in training.

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- Listening to non-approved broadcasts
- Writing articles against the Nazi Party
- Avoiding saluting
- Hatred towards the Nazi Youth

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An excerpt from one of Helmuth's leaflets

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An excerpt from one of Helmuth's leaflets

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“Down with Hitler. People’s Seducer, People’s Corrupter, People’s Traitor, Down with Hitler.”

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"German boys! Do you know the country without freedom, the country of terror and tyranny? Yes, you know it well, but are afraid to talk about it. They have intimidated you to such an extent that you don't dare talk for fear of reprisals. Yes you are right; it is Germany – Hitler Germany! Through their unscrupulous terror tactics against young and old, men and women, they have succeeded in making you spineless puppets to do their bidding."

– Helmuth Hübener

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A colorized photo of Rudolf Wobbe, Helmuth Hübener, and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe (names in order from left to right)

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The Hübener group contained four members: Helmuth Hübener, Rudolf Wobbe, and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe.

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"a printed sheet of paper, sometimes folded, containing information or advertising and usually distributed free."

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After Hübener was sentenced to death, Wobbe and Schnibbe were sent to labor camps in Russia and Poland respectively.

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https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/helmuth-huebener/?no_cache=1

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Helmuth Hübener was born in Hamburg; his mother was a wage-worker who raised him on her own. He was decisively influenced by the religious movement The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). In 1941 he began a training course at the Hamburg Social Welfare Authority. At the same time he helped out as voluntary secretary to the Chairman of the Mormon Community. In 1940-41 he came into contact with an illegal Young Communist Group in Altona, a district of Hamburg. He listened regularly to foreign radio stations and scattered leaflets containing important items of news. In the summer of 1941 Hübener persuaded other like-minded young people to join him in opposition: Rudolf Wobbe, a 16-year-old journeyman locksmith and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, a 17-year-old apprentice house painter. They were joined somewhat later by Gerhard Düwer, a 17-year-old administrative trainee. Hübener and his friends discussed numerous leaflets and distributed them in working-class areas in Hamburg. Their aim was to correct the lies in the National Socialist Wehrmacht reports and news broadcasts. In the winter of 1941 Hübener and his circle of friends already foresaw the military defeat of the German forces. They decided that it was not enough to scatter leaflets with short slogans calling on people to struggle against the National Socialist regime; they wanted to inform people how serious the situation was. Hübener developed ideas for more than 20 leaflets in six months. At the end of January 1942, Düwer and Hübener asked an acquaintance to translate the leaflets into French. They were seen while doing this and denounced to the police. The Gestapo arrested them on February 5, 1942. A few days later the Gestapo arrested Schnibbe and Wobbe as well. The young men were severely maltreated in custody. They were tried on August 11, 1942 before the People's Court in Berlin. Despite his youth, 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener was sentenced to death and murdered on October 27, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee. His three friends received long prison sentences, but survived the war.

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German Resistance Memorial Center - Biographie

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Helmuth Hübener was born in Hamburg; his mother was a wage-worker who raised him on her own. He was decisively influenced by the religious movement The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). In 1941 he began a training course at the Hamburg Social Welfare Authority.

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Two books were written directly on The Helmuth Hübener Group: When Truth Was Treason: German Youth Against Hitler and Hübener Vs Hitler. Another book, The Boy Who Dared, was inspired by his story. His story was also covered in the 2003 documentary, Truth and Conviction.

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For his crimes against the government, Helmuth was sentenced to death via guillotine.