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Helmuth Hübener’s 100th Birthday Commemorated in the German Cities of Hamburg and Berlin
“Do not allow your free will, the most precious thing you possess, to be taken away from you.” This sentence from a leaflet written by Helmuth Hübener in 1941 was once quoted by Joachim Gauck, then Federal President of Germany. The same quote was heard on the Deutschlandfunk radio broadcast series “Kalenderblatt” on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025—exactly 100 years after Helmuth Hübener was born. On this anniversary, congregations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the German cities of Hamburg and Berlin commemorated the courage of this teenage member of the resistance against national socialism.