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A Vierergruppe ("group of four") was a small German resistance group that fought the National Socialists. There were three "groups of four" working simultaneously and independently of each other in Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. Each of the groups consisted of four young males aged 16 to 18 and each group was led by someone whose precociousness set him apart. The groups had no political agenda, no background in party politics and moved in a religious environment. All twelve young men came from predominantly Christian, lower- and lower-middle-class families. All were influenced by having heard foreign radio broadcasts, which affected their actions. All of them used leaflets and wall slogans to agitate against the war, against the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, and all came to the conclusion that the war Germany was leading, then two years old, could not be won. They all hoped for an Allied invasion and victory and the resulting liberation from the domination of the Nazi regime. == Vierergruppe Hamburg == The Hamburg group centered around Helmuth Hübener, a 16-year-old Mormon. He and his friends listened to "enemy radio" broadcasts of the BBC and then transcribed the news reports as leaflets, which they then disseminated.〔Lisa Millett, ("Documentary captures anti-Nazi Mormon youths" ) Brigham Young University newspaper (January 28, 2003) Retrieved April 18, 2010〕 Hübener and his friends Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, age 17, and Rudolf Wobbe, age 16, also Mormons〔Peggy Fletcher Stack, ("Film Tells Anti-Nazi Mormon's Story" ), ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' (January 11, 2003) Retrieved April 19, 2010〕 and a co-worker, Gerhard Düwer made their own dissident documents and satirical verses and began distributing the leaflets in working-class neighborhoods in August 1941.〔(Short biography of Helmuth Hübener ) German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin. Retrieved April 19, 2010〕 The 60 leaflets, containing three to five pages each, were prepared on a church typewriter and left in telephone booths, mailboxes and the lobbies of buildings. At the end of January 1942, Hübener and Düwer asked an acquaintace to translate their leaflets into French and were observed and afterward denounced. Hübener, Schnibbe and Wobbe were arrested by the Gestapo on February 5, 1942.〔〔 Schnibbe and Wobbe were arrested a few days later. They were tried on August 11, 1942 before the Nazi People's Court.〔 Hübener took full responsibility for the group, its actions and the fliers. He was sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit high treason and for aiding and abetting the enemy, his three co-defendants were condemned to prison terms of 4–10 years and spent the rest of the war in prison. Hübener was executed at the age of 17 on October 27, 1942 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vierergruppe (German Resistance)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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