Robert Limpert

Robert Limpert (15 July 1925 – 18 April 1945) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi government in World War II.

He was executed in the final days of the war for cutting the telephone lines at an abandoned Wehrmacht command post in Ansbach in Germany.

In 1943, Robert Limpert and a friend Wolfgang Hammer were accused of damaging blackout curtains while night watch at the high school and to have written slogans critical of the Nazi regime.

[1] In the days before 18 April 1945, Limpert and his comrades in a Nazi resistance cell posted flyers on the Ansbach Rathaus (city hall) in an attempt to incite local residents to sabotage the defense of the town and have it surrender to the Allies.

[2] On the 18th, with allied forces approaching Ansbach, Limpert was observed by two members of the Hitler Youth cutting telephone lines between the recently abandoned commander's headquarters and troops stationed outside the city.