W. Skiles

Overcoming and The Ninth Day: The Sacramental Life and Resistance in Nazi Germany

Volker Schlöndorff’s film The Ninth Day (2004) presents for cultural remembrance a story loosely based on Father Jean Bernard’s short furlough from the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War, as told in his memoir Priestblock 25487. The film functions as a distinctive site of memory that reveals the dema...