A chilling, true story of four courageous teenagers who defied the Nazis. Based on a first-person account by one of the surviving conspirators, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, a working-class son of the city of Hamburg, this book provides a vivid chronicle of the brave young men who faced the awful tyranny of a nation's darkest hour. 20 photos.
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From Publishers Weekly Early in WWII, four Hamburg members of the Hitler Youth who became disillusioned with the Nazi regime began writing and distributing leaflets revealing the Allies' version of the war, which they heard while covertly listening to the BBC. For this they were interrogated, tortured and tried. Three of the boys received long prison sentences; the leader, Helmut Hubener, 17, was guillotined. Based largely on the recollections of one of the surviving conspirators, this compelling and well-documented study offers a detailed account of the motivations and actions of this resistance group. Included in the text are contents of the leaflets, Hubener's confession at Gestapo headquarters and letters from the boys' parents asking the court for leniency. There is also an informative foreword on Mormonism in Hitler's Germany, since three of the boys were members of the Latter-Day Saints church. The editors teach at Brigham Young University, Holmes history and Keele German. Photos. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Publishers Weekly
From Library Journal In 1942, Helmuth Hubener, a 17-year-old from Hamburg and a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, listened to forbidden broadcasts from England and then typed up fliers that contradicted official Nazi information. The sheets were distributed by three other young men. For these acts, Hubener was beheaded and his friends received prison sentences ranging from four to ten years. Editors Holmes and Keele (history and German, respectively, Brigham Young University) have translated and edited the account of Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, the eldest of the young men sent to prison. The account takes the reader from Schnibbe's youngest days through his involvement with Hubener and his years in prison. The notes are an excellent source of information for students, though they should have been placed at the bottom of the main narrative. Schnibbe's account is powerful and adds to the literature on German resistance. The book should be in all academic and large public libraries.?Dennis L. Noble, Sequim, Wash. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Library Journal
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