Karl-Heinz Schnibbe (January 5, 1924 – May 9, 2010) 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
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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