Karl-Heinz Schnibbe
Karl-Heinz Schnibbe (January 5, 1924 – May 9, 2010) was a
German Resistance to Nazism member during World War II 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 sentenced to death for opposing the
Third Reich, and Schnibbe was sentenced to five years in a labor camp. After the war and his release from a
Soviet POW camp, Schnibbe emigrated to the United States in 1952, living in the
Salt Lake City, Utah area until his death on May 9, 2010.
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