Costas-Gravas movie "Amen"

[scarletlib]

now playing on TRIO (315 Directv. I'm sure it will play several more times in the coming weeks.

It is about 2 men who tried to get to the Pope and get him to speak up and condemn the holocaust of the Jewish people being conducted by the Nazis.

It is a really great movie and sad also. Both men ended up dying. One of the men was a German SS officer who didn't want to abandon his country but was desperate to stop what was going on.

Have to say it is a sad indictment of Catholicism (I am Catholic) and other Christian Church leaders of the time.

I am posting here because I do think it is relevant to our times more than ever.

Two brave men never gave up trying to get the truth out and stop the atrocities.

[onager]

1. Then I bet you would also like...

"The Statement." Excellent movie with Michael Caine as a French ex-Nazi (and uber-devout Catholic). Tilda Swinton plays the lawyer trying to bring him to belated justice.

Fictional, but it works in a lot of historical facts about the network of "safe houses" etc. provided to Nazis courtesy of the Catholic Church.