Contemporary Church History Quarterly

Volume 31, Number 4 (Winter 2025)

Review of Escape from Germany, Directed by T.C. Christiansen, Remember Films, 2024.

By Martin Menke, Rivier University

“Escape from Germany” tells the story of how U.S. missionaries of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) or Mormons, fled Germany in 1939, just before the German invasion of Poland. There are many good films about National Socialism and religion. This is not one of them. It fails as cinema and, even more, as history.

The cinematic weaknesses are many. Continue reading →