In 1941, Helmut Huberner, a teenage boy and two friends from his Latter-day St. Branch,

began to feel that something wasn't right about the Nazi regime that was being bought into all around them.

In fact, they felt it was terribly wrong. Helmut set out to use the only weapon he knew how to operate a typewriter.

Matt Whitaker is a man on a mission to tell Helmut's story. In fact, he has been on that mission for over 20 years.

The road to the fulfillment of the stream has not been easy, but Matt recently partnered with Angel Studios,

the studio behind the Chosen, and it feels like his dream may soon become a reality.

Matt has previously worked on beloved Latter-day St. Films, Saints and Soldiers, as well as two of the work in the Glory movies.

This is All-In, an LDS Living Podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In, the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Pearson, and I'm so excited to have Matt Whitaker on the line with me today, Matt, welcome.

Thank you, Morgan. I'm just so happy to be on here.

Well, today we're going to be talking about a project that Matt has now devoted a good chunk of his life to.

Matt, you have been working on this project for a very, very long time. Is that right?

That is true. Starting way back in 2001. Let's see, what year were you born? Is it okay to ask that? How old were you in 2001?

Yeah, I was born in 1989, so I would have been 11 or 12 around that time.

Well, when you were 11 or 12, I was in my 30s, and I was actually, I'm a filmmaker, so I was working on a documentary for PBS about World War II,

and it was about members of the church who had served in World War II. So my dad was a B-24 bomber pilot, and I've always been just fascinated and very interested in all things World War II.

And in this documentary, I was interviewing veterans of World War II, members of the church who were American and British, but also I was interviewing veterans from the other side who had served in Hitler's Army,

who were also at the time members of the church, even when they were serving in the Army.

And it was just a very, very interesting experience. And while I was kind of immersed in that, a friend of mine that was working on it with me asked if I'd ever heard of a young German teenager named Helmut Huberer, who in Nazi Germany had run a resistance group,

led this resistance group of other teenagers, I said, no, I haven't heard of that, but I'm interested. And he said, I think the last surviving member of the group is still alive, and I think he lives about 45 minutes away from us.

Should we try and see if we can track him down? I said, heck yeah, man, I am in. And we didn't know how to reach him. So we actually opened up the phone book. We knew his name, and we found him in the phone book, called him up, and introduced ourselves, and asked if he would be open to the idea of having us come and maybe sharing his story.

And his response was, y'all should come on up. And so we went up to his home, and they're sitting in his living room. He told a story that has changed the rest of my life. He told a story of his best friend, the 16 year old Helmut Huberer, who they knew each other from church.

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