Ihave friends who live in the netherworld of despair, disenchantment and discouragement. They view the partisan politics of chaos and throw up their hands, vowing to stop reading the news and stay off social media. But their cocoon of withdrawal comforts little. Reality seeps in around the edges. Most of all they feel powerless to contribute in any meaningful manner.

That wasn’t the case for Helmut Hubener, a 17-year-old resistance fighter in 1942 Nazi Germany, whose story is told in the recent movie "Truth and Treason." Instead of a gun, Helmuth wielded a typewriter and spread the truth about Adolf Hitler through flyers in Hamburg while the Nazi Secret Police rabidly searched for him. Against overwhelming odds he told his compatriots, “We can make a difference.” He didn’t give up until h

See Full Page