EPISODE · Apr 20, 2025 · 9 MIN
Chapter 5: Marks of Defiance
from An Article Of Faith: Mormonism, Fascism, and the Third Reich · host Justin Rich
Back at his desk, surrounded by forms and silence, Friedrich faces the file he’s been dreading. The stamps are waiting. The manual offers no room for doubt. But after what he’s seen—the tightening grip of the Reich, the erasure of his friend—routine no longer feels righteous. Can Friedrich defy the banality of evil with a single stroke of his pen? This chapter explores the quiet tension between duty and conscience, and the cost of even the smallest act of resistance.
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Back at his desk, surrounded by forms and silence, Friedrich faces the file he’s been dreading. The stamps are waiting. The manual offers no room for doubt. But after what he’s seen—the tightening grip of the Reich, the erasure of his friend—routine no longer feels righteous. Can Friedrich defy the banality of evil with a single stroke of his pen? This chapter explores the quiet tension between duty and conscience, and the cost of even the smallest act of resistance.
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Chapter 5: Marks of Defiance
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