The heroic last words of the Mormon boy beheaded by the Nazis for brave rebellion and how even the Gestapo protested

It was a sentence that was so barbaric that even members of the Gestapo appealed for Clementia.

But in the distorted world of Nazi -righteousness, such a sentiment was outside of it.

And so on October 27, 1942, the decapitation of the 17-year-old boy Helmuth Hübener, who was a Mormon, continued as planned.

His crime? The distribution of anti-war magazines around the city of Hamburg.

Despite the immense sense of fear that he must have grabbed, Hübener was amazingly brave in the face of his sentence.

Just after it was transferred, he told the jury members: ‘Now I have to die, even though I have committed no crime. So now it’s my turn, but your turn will come. ‘

He was the youngest of more than 16,500 people who were beheaded with the help of the guillotine during the rule of Adolf Hitler.

Now the story of heroic life and tragic death of the teenager is converted into a new film.

Truth & Treason, which will be released in October, plays Ewan Horrocks in the lead.

The guillotine became the preferred method of Nazi Germany in 1936.

Twenty of the devices were ordered and sent to prisons in the empire.

Just like his mother and grandparents, Hübener was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the last days.

His path to ‘crime’ started in 1941, when he found a radio in a cupboard at his house and started using it to listen to Radio broadcasts from the BBC.

Such an act was forbidden after the start of the Second World War, but Hübener was not put off.

Shocked by what he heard, Hübener invited two friends, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe then 17, and Rudolph Wobbe, then 15, to listen to him.

The trio then began to write anti-fascist and anti-war magazines to defy Nazi groats.

In the course of a few months, the boys spread thousands of leaflets across Hamburg. Their methods include the brutal filling of jacket pockets.

One brochure was: ‘German boys! Do you know the country without freedom, the land of terror and tyranny?

‘Yes, you know well, but are afraid of talking about it. They have intimidated you so that you don’t dare to talk for fear of reprisals.

‘Yes, you are right; It is Germany – Hitler Germany!

“Because of their unscrupulous terror tactics against young and old, men and women, they have succeeded in having your spinless dolls made to make their bids.”

Although Hübener did his best not to be caught, his happiness sustained in February 1942.

Arrested after a tip, he was beaten and tortured until he unveiled the names of his henchmen.

Although he eventually admits torture, he still stated that his friends had only been accomplices and that he was the most important instigator.

His actions probably saved their lives.

On August 11, 1942, his trial took place at the so -called People’s Court in Berlin.

Hübener was sentenced to death there. Even worse, judges have also taken him from his civil rights, which means that he could be seriously abused in prison.

His friends, Schnibbe and Wobbe, received hard work for five and ten months respectively.

The lawyers of Hübener, his mother and even the Gestapo argue that his death penalty was being withdrawn. But the Nazi Minister of Justice confirmed the verdict.

He was beheaded at 8.13 pm on October 27, 1941 in the prison of Berlin Potzensee, the site of hundreds of other similar executions.

Hours before his death, Hübener said a friend in a letter: ‘I am very grateful to my heavenly father that my miserable life will end tonight – I could no longer tolerate it.

“I know God is alive and He will be the righteous judge in this issue.

“My heavenly Father knows that I have done nothing wrong … I look forward to seeing you in a better world!”

Before the defeat of Germany, Schnibbe and Wobbe spent three years and hunger in Vriezame circumstances.

Schnibbe was released a few weeks before the end of the war and was forced to fight in the army.

But he was captured by Soviet troops and would spend another four years behind bars.

He and Wobbe then emigrated to Utah in the 1950s with two of the half -brothers of Hübener.

The book by Schnibbe, The Price: The True Story of a Mormon Die hitler, was published in 1986.

He died in 2010 at the age of 86, 18 years after the death of Wobbe by cancer. Wobbe also wrote a book about his experiences with Hübener and Schnibbe.

Truth and betrayal are written and directed by Matt Whitaker. Schnibbe is depicted by Ferdinand McKay, while Daf Thomas Wobbe displays.

The execution of Hübener was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to a wild treatment of dissidents.

Known than his case is the similar tragic story of Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, who were put to death in 1943 because they were members of the peaceful white rose movement.

Their group had committed the ‘crime’ of spreading anti-Nazi folders to university students in Munich.

The Scholl brothers and sisters were found to be guilty only a few hours after the infamous right Roland Freisler, who was unbridled pro-Nazi.

It is said that Sophie’s last words have been: ‘How can we expect that righteousness will prevail when there is almost no one who wants to give himself an individual point to a just case?

“Such a nice sunny day, and I have to go, but what’s my death, if thousands of people have been awakened and taken to action?”

Hans is said to be “Long Live Freedom!” Shouted! While he was led to the Guillotined.

Both brothers and sisters were put to death by the executioner of Nazi Germany, Johann Reichart.

He later claimed that Sophie was the bravest person he had killed.

In 2014, the specific guillotine that was used to perform the Scholls was found in the basement of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

It is believed that it has claimed the life of hundreds of anti-Nazi rebels in total.