Joseph Schultz

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Wombat

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Presents a dramatization about a German soldier during World War II in Yugoslavia who, refusing to participate in the execution of innocent hostages, causes his own death. Provides the viewer with a consideration of the moral and ethical code of the individual in a time of war. A dramatization of an actual historical incident that occurred during World War II in Yugoslavia. A German soldier refuses to participate in the execution of innocent hostages, and thereby brings on his own death. Provides for the viewer a consideration of the moral and ethical code of the individual in a time of war. , Opens silently with a short study of Joseph Schultz, a Nazi soldier performing his duty to the Fatherland. Recreates an actual event in which Schultz is given a direct order as a member of a firing squad to shoot a group of civilians. Portrays Schultz searching his conscience, refusing, and then facing the consequence, which is his own death before the same firing squad.