Weller Book Works presents the next in the Books and Bridges series, Alan Keele discusses Helmuth Huebener's Story: The Conscience of a Nazi Resister, Thursday, October 26, 6:30 PM, at Weller Book Works.

Alan Keele, Emeritus Professor of German at Brigham Young University, tells the gripping story of three teenage German boys in Hamburg — Helmuth Hübener, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, and Rudi Wobbe — who created in 1941 a non-violent resistance movement against Adolf Hitler. Like the stories of other brave resistance fighters against Fascism, this history reveals the fearless intensity of these young men and their search for truth. This year we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the execution of the boys’ leader, 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener, who died on the guillotine October 27, 1942, thus becoming the youngest resistance fighter killed by Nazis. Today, their example impels us to decide whether — and how — to confront the passionate intensity of some of the worst actors in our own contemporary world. The legacy of Helmuth Hübener is that even in death he has survived Hitler with the ability to inspire many people, in many places, to oppose many more such monstrosities, now and in the future. After the presentation we will have a Q&A discussion.

This event is organized by Books & Bridges — a community institute of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.