Amateurfilm-Kino Nassau

Unknown Heroes - Resistance in the Southwest

A documentary drama by Bernhard Stegmann and Samuel Ackermann

with an introduction by Joachim Hennig, Deputy Chairman of the Association for the Memorial Koblenz for the Victims of National Socialism e.V.

Documentary drama featuring Ulrike Folkerts, Walter Sittler, Karl Kranzkowski, and Sebastian Blomberg. The unknown heroines and heroes are people from Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate who – much like the great resisters Graf Stauffenberg, Georg Elser, or the Scholl siblings – courageously risked their lives to end the Nazi injustice system and the war. Nevertheless, they have never stood in the spotlight, have fallen into oblivion, or are only belatedly honored for their brave actions. The documentary tells the stories of these courageous citizens through five exemplary cases.

Joachim Hennig

Born in 1948, he served as a judge at the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz until 2013. Since the early 1990s, he has been dealing with regional legal contemporary history and the topic of persecution and resistance in Koblenz and its surroundings from 1933 to 1945. He is the author of several books, numerous articles, and the "creator" of documentaries, exhibitions, and a website.

Admission is free