Saturday, September 16, 2017

Pencil sketch of a Nazi resistance fighter

RUDOLF WOBBE


 Rudolf WOBBE was a former World War II resistance group member who, as a 17-year-old growing up in Nazi Germany in 1941, was an accomplice in a plan by three German teenagers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), to distribute information to the citizens of Germany on the evils of the Nazi regime during World War II Led by 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener, the three boys created, posted and distributed cards and pamphlets denouncing Hitler and the Nazi party. They were eventually caught by the Gestapo and, after repeated beatings, were convicted and sentenced. Hübener was executed, the youngest person to be qsentenced to death for opposing the Third Reich, and Schnibbe was sentenced to five years in a labor camp. Rudolf WOBBE was sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was released from pRison by allied after the War was over in 1945. He got married in Jan 1949. And shifted to Salt Lake City where he was priest. He died in 1992 jan 31 after fighting with cancer.

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