90 minutes
Source: First Run Features
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German theologian who offered one of the first clear voices of resistance to Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer openly challenged his church to stand with the Jews in their hour of need, and eventually joined a plot to kill Hitler. Archival footage is interwoven with interviews with friends, family, and students of Bonheoffer, with historians and theologians, and with the words of Bonhoeffer himself.
What is a moral person to do in times of savage immorality? This question tormented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis.
Consider the different ways that the German Christian movement and the Confessing Church movement navigated their relationships with the Nazi government.
Consider why some young people in Nazi Germany chose to drop out of Hitler youth organizations with this story about a former Hitler Youth member.
Investigate different examples of protest and resistance by Germans against the Nazi regime in the 1940s, including the White Rose resistance group.
