Helmuth's Spirit And Action

Helmuth, through the years, saw the cruelty of the Nazis and at first was able to shrug it off. Helmuth was truly convinced to take action against the Nazis when he read the book spirit and action. Up to that point he had already been breaking laws that were punishable by death, but he made his choice to take action to help others learn the truth instead of just himself. Helmuth saw wrong that needed to be fixed, while others like his relatives would turn a blind eye and say, “silence is how we get along sometimes”. Helmuth one night said to Rudi, “Geist und Tat”, Spirit and Action and on that night he decided that was what he wanted. As it turned out he got Spirit and Action. He found some close friends to conspire with him and he took action by writing and distributing chain letters, listening to foreign radio stations, and spreading that information. His action was high treason and ultimate denial of Germany and the Nazis. He took his action and in the end got spirit after his execution by floating. Helmuth's high treason involved distributing hand made leaflets with enemy propaganda on them that he learned every night during the british bbc broadcast. He sent some close friends working with him to leave the leaflets in random places where people would pick them up and read about how …show more content…
His church taught him that he had to obey and follow the rules of the current government. From that perspective, Helmuth was unjustified, but as time went on and he saw the horrors of what the Nazis were doing to people like the jews or Brother Worbs and realized it was wrong. He then believed that he was morally obligated to take action against, “the Nazi butchers”, and try to get the truth out to the public. Helmuth was justified because he bravely took action against the Nazis, who killed many innocent people. Helmuth was brave and took action for what he believed was