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Nazi poster reveals execution of teenager who listened to BBC

A wartime poster has revealed how a teenage opponent of the Nazis was arrested and executed for listening to the BBC.

The rare World War Two poster declaring the execution of 17-year-old Helmuth Hubener is set to be auctioned off at Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers in Ludlow, Shrops.

The red poster printed with bold, black writing was put on display to the German public to announce the youngster's beheading by guillotine on October 27, 1942....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)