It's February 27, 1943, in Berlin, Germany.

44-year-old Julius Israel shivers in his thin jacket as he steps outside the gates of a large armaments factory.

Once a tailor, Julius is now being forced to work on an assembly line, turning out weapons

for the Nazi war machine. After his latest exhausting shift in the factory, Julius begins to long

walk home to his wife, but he barely makes it ten yards, before

a tarp-covered truck skids to a halt in front of him. Armed police jump out and bark at

Julius to get inside. Julius doesn't resist. During a volley of insults and slurs from the police,

he climbs into the back of the truck, which then roars off

down the street. Julius has seen many others taken in raids like this ever since Adolf Hitler

came to power, though he's never been the victim before. He is Jewish, but he's partly protected

from the Nazis by his marriage. His wife is what race theorists call

Aryan, and it's her status that has kept Julius out of concentration camps until today.

Sitting next to him in the back of the truck, Julius recognizes other intermarried man like him.

And as the vehicle rumbles down the streets of Berlin, Julius grows terrified that the fragile protection their marriages have afforded them is finally at an end.

Julius Israel is right to be worried.

Regardless of their marriage status, all Jews are now marked for removal from Germany and are being sent to concentration

camps as part of Adolf Hitler's final solution. But not everyone in Berlin will stand aside

and let Hitler and his followers erase the city's Jewish population. A protest movement, the first of its

kind, will begin just hours after Julius Israel and other men were arrested

on February 27, 1943.

I've discovered that I get a lot of good ideas from my live show right as I'm falling asleep.

Tucked in bed, lights out, warm and snug, that's when my brain decides to solve a problem

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