On November 1, 1943, only a few months after Jägerstätter’s execution, the Allied foreign ministers gathered in Moscow, and among many other decisions for the postwar world, also published a basic declaration on Austria. There were matters in which one was obliged to obey God more than man the commandment ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’ forbade him to engage in armed service, though he was prepared to serve as a paramedic.” Now, however, God had given him the thought that it was not a sin to refuse armed service. When he complied with the earlier conscription order, he did so because at that time he considered it a sin not to obey state orders.

It was impossible for him to be a Catholic and at the same time a National Socialist. “Only in the past year had he become convinced that as a devout Catholic he was unable to engage in active military service. The following is the summary of his own defense on July 6, 1943, from the trial records of the Reich Military Court in Berlin: When he was drafted again in February 1943, Jägerstätter, the father of four young girls, refused to serve due to his strong religious convictions. After weeks of basic training, he was exempted from military duty due to being “indispensable” on his farm. Radegund, situated in the Innviertel region close to Hitler’s birthplace of Braunau, was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service in 1940. The simple Upper Austrian peasant from St. Who was Franz Jägerstätter? On August 9, 1943, the Nazis executed the conscientious objector in a prison in Brandenburg an der Havel, close to Berlin. Recent film industry buzz speculates that A Hidden Life may receive a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, bringing Malick back to the prestigious festival for the first time since winning the Palme d’Or with The Tree of Life.

The supporting cast includes Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts, and the late actors Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz. The historical drama stars August Diehl as Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious WWII objector who was guillotined by the Third Reich in 1943. The long-in-the-making film was previously titled Radegund, the name of Franz Jägerstätter’s hometown in Austria. Terrence Malick’s upcoming WWII drama is officially titled A Hidden Life.

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