Helmuth Hübener
always knew he wanted to serve his country. He was told over and
over again by teachers, family, and the Third Reich that he would
make a great asset to Germany. And he did, just not in the way he,
or anyone else, expected. In Hamburg, Germany, on the 27th of
October, 1942, Helmuth Hubener, at the age of 17, was executed by
the Third Reich for crimes against Germany. The road that led to
his death was unexpected, short, and full of bravery and sacrifice.
Helmuth Günther Guddat was born in 1925 in Hamburg, Germany,
the same year
Adolf
Hitlerbegan rebuilding the Nazi party. By the time Helmuth
celebrated his eighth birthday, Hitler became chancellor of
Germany. Helmuth was raised by his single mother, with the help of
his grandparents.
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In school he
passed multiple tests that showed he understood the differences
between inferior races and the superior Aryan race. To complete
his mandatory education Helmuth had to write a thesis about the
ideals of national socialism, a thesis that earned him praise from
his teacher. His teacher, Mr. Meins, told Helmuth he was a man who
has the gift of interpretation. This gift would soon allow him to
change his home city of Hamburg, and give its citizens knowledge
about the war.
On the outside, Helmuth seemed like a perfect German. His
first sign of rebellion was when he was caught singing You Are My
Sunshine, a forbidden American song, by the Hitler Youth Night
Patrol. He questioned why his act was bad, this was written on his
citizenship report. After Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken
Glass, he began to voice his opinion about the wrongdoings of the
Nazis to his friends and family. That was the last time he
publicly voiced his forbidden opinion about the Nazi party. After
that, he began publicly, anonymously making forbidden comments
about the
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Helmuth was
torture interrogated for 2 days, after that he confesses that Karl
and Rudi helped him. Helmuths trial is held at the Peoples Court
of Berlin, the most feared court in Germany. In Helmuths final
letters to his family, his last wish, he wrote that he knows he
will not die in vain. He says that he spoke out about the truths of
Nazismand that
he allowed other people to know it. He told his mother that he
knows he lived a life that stood for something. The truth. Karl and
Rudi, who were later granted clemency for their crimes, they both
say due to Helmuth efforts, saw each other on a bus to the trial.
Both boys describe that they were all smiling and winking at each
other, even Helmuth, through his swollen eyes and lips. They recall
seeing Helmuth forgive the man who told the Gestapo all the
information to incriminate Helmuth. Helmuths defense lawyer worked
for the Nazi government.There is no jury. When the judges announced
that he will be sentenced to death, even though he is a minor, he
states, All I did was tell the truth, and you have sentenced me to
die, just for telling the
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