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April 18, 2023 46 mins

The story is that when most Germans were falling for Hitler’s lies, or were too afraid to fight against them, a sixteen-year old boy recognized the truth, and began a peaceful resistance to shed light on the gross sins of Hitler and the Nazi regime. He rallied a couple of his teenage friends around him to join him in the cause until he was eventually found out, caught, and stopped. Today, we explore the story and importance of “Truth and Conviction.”

Matt Whitaker is an American film and TV writer and director, and a specialist in the WWII genre. His credits include the critically acclaimed war films Saints and Soldiers and Instrument of War. In 2002, Matt and a film crew traveled to Germany with the last surviving member of a teenage Nazi resistance group for the PBS documentary “Truth & Conviction: The Helmuth Hübener Story.” Now, twenty years later this powerful story will be produced as an upcoming dramatic series “Truth & Conviction” with Angel Studios.

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