One day, the gestapo knocked at her door. “Tomorrow night your children will be taken from you unless you join the party,” Herr Doering screamed.Īnd she had another secret. Pressured to join the Nazi party, she announced, “I belong to the party of Jesus Christ.” Back at home, Franz’s wife, Helene, and their four children were fighting their own battles. In Russia he faced a new problem: how to warn the local Jews before the SS got to them. Just before he was sent deep into Russia - where all but seven of his 1,200 man unit would die - he secretly discarded his gun, fearing that, as the company sharpshooter, he might be tempted to kill. Pacifist Franz Hasel was drafted into one of Hitler’s elite troops to build bridges at the front lines. The electrifying true testimony of Franz Hasel, dramatically narrated with original cinematic score.
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