Subject: So. Studies/Sciences: History

World War II Series

Anti-Nazi: My Opposition - The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner

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"Highly Recommended. Scott Kellner, the grandson of a German justice official who spoke out against the Nazi party during World War II, translated the nine volumes of his ancestor's personal diary and says it has lessons for today's war against terrorism." -UPI
This powerful documentary tells the story of two courageous and determined men. The first, Friedrich Kellner, a political activist during World War II, the second, his grandson, Robert Scott Kellner, who learned of his grandfather's anti-Nazi diaries, and made it his life's goal to have them published to alert people to the dangers of totalitarian ideologies. Here we learn how, in Germany, Friedrich Kellner was a justice inspector who refused to join the Nazi Party, risking his and his wife's life, and secretly recorded the horrific atrocities of the Nazi Regime; these diaries remained hidden until decades later when Scott, who was orphaned as a child, seeks out his grandfather, learns his grandfather's secret, and makes a life-changing promise to tell his grandfather's story by using the diaries as a tangible protest against fascism and terrorism. Directed by Fern Levitt & Arnie Zipursky. Produced by Abella Entertainment Ltd. Distributed in association with CCI, Releasing, Inc. 08DR JSCA 66 min.
Also See The Defiant: The Holocaust Memoirs of Shalom Yoran; Holocaust Hero: A Tree for Sugihara; Holocaust Story: A Look in the Eyes of Resistance
Associated Movie: The Diary of Anne Frank - starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut and Shelley Winters