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Engleitner refused The documentary’s narrator and script-editor, Frederic Fuss, said that among the things that captivated him from the beginning was ‘the strength of Leopold’s unbroken will and determination never diminished his positive outlook, and the intensity of his trial never made him bitter’. He added: ‘Ladder in the Lions’ Den takes a slice of Leo’s experiences and puts them into a more direct historical context. ‘You get to the significance of the stand he took as a conscientious objector, not going along with Nazism and and its ideals. ‘The name Ladder in the Lions’ Den is about Leo’s experience as a Jehovah’s Witness in the camps. ‘A document was regularly presented to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were conscientious objectors and who objected to the principles of Nazism, and they did not subscribe to any of the racist ideas. ‘To get out of the camp, they were told ‘just sign this document where you renounce your beliefs, say you go along with Nazism and go along with Hitler’. ‘They [Jehovah's Witnesses] would also not say the ‘Heil Hitler’ greeting, and the film comments on that, that the words ascribe salvation to Hitler. ‘They said, no, he’s not God so we’re not going to do that.’ The survivor is still active and tours schools around his home country telling children ‘You don’t need to go along with peer pressure, you can stick by your conscience… Source and read more http://wrhstol.com/Qiqifk Share this: Digg StumbleUpon Pinterest Tumblr Email Tags: holocaust survivor, Leopold Engleitner, Nazi, Veteran, WW2 WWII Tweet 1 Gefällt mir 24 1 Related Posts Related Posts Slider German death camps and concentration camps in Nazi 10 of the Worst Nazi http://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured-article/the-oldest-surviv…tory-of-107-year-old-who-was-imprisoned-in-three-nazi-prisons.html Seite 3 von 5.