{"id":40268,"date":"2025-10-20T00:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/?p=40268"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:11:25","slug":"matt-whitaker-discusses-the-history-the-truth-and-the-making-of-truth-treason-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/interviews\/interview-exclusives\/matt-whitaker-discusses-the-history-the-truth-and-the-making-of-truth-treason-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"MATT WHITAKER discusses the history, the truth, and the making of TRUTH & TREASON – Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An in-depth exclusive interview with writer\/director MATT WHITAKER discussing the powerful narrative film TRUTH & TREASON, based on the true story of German youths Helmuth Hubener, Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, and Rudi Wobbe, who fought Hitler and the Third Reich with the most powerful weapon of all – their words.\u00a0 An amazing true story that has remained untold for too long and now, thanks to Whitaker and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, comes into the light.<\/p>\n

SYNOPSIS:\u00a0 As World War II rages, a teenage boy in Germany (Helmuth Hubener) is forced to confront a terrible truth\u2014loyalty to his country now means loyalty to a lie. When his trusted bishop urges obedience to the Nazi regime, he begins to question everything. And after his Jewish friend (Salomon Schwarz) is taken away, he secretly listens to banned radio broadcasts and launches a resistance, exposing the truth. But in a nation ruled by fear, defiance comes at a cost\u2014and as the regime closes in, he must decide what it truly means to be a good German.<\/em><\/p>\n