German Film "A Hidden Life" Resisting Hitler's Rise

How did Hitler rise to power?  A multi-complex answer but basically - because people allowed it.  Amer. filmmaker/screenwriter Terrence Malik's latest film "A Hidden Life" is a biopic on the life & execution of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer, husband & father whose courageous convictions to oppose Hitler's evils ending up costing him his life.  Never heard of Jagerstatter?  Most people never have and because the Nazis imprisoned, executed and covered up those who stood up to Hitler. Malik (b Amer. 1943) has received 3 Oscar noms. for directing/screening.  "A Hidden Life" which is set in Austria in the 1940s is in heavily accented English with German spoken by Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. oftentimes in silence despite the obviously vitriolic hatred being spouted.  The film has received multiple nominations from this year's Cannes' Film Festival & the Palm d'Or Award.  The laconic & lugubrious 2 1/2 film is measured in its stark cinematographic beauty of the Austrian countryside and heinous fascism of Nazi Germany.  The film doesn't belabor the horrors or brutalities of war.  In fact, it luxuriates in the arduous but idyllic life of a farm couple.  Franz (August Diehl b. Germany 1976) and his wife Fani (Valerie Pachner b. Austria 1986) are a loving & devoted couple with 3 young daughters.  Their love story is very much a part of this story as its powerful message of Fran's conscientious objections amidst the melee of madness that exacts the ultimate self-sacrifice & knowing hardship & ostracism to his wife & family.  Malik's deliberately measured film captures Franz's deliberate disobedience to his church, country and solidifying conclusion that he must obey what he believes to be morally correct.  Franz is given multiple opportunities to recant & pledge allegiance to Hitler's regime to save his life but balks & remains stalwart.  First, Franz speaks with his parish priest who counsels obeyance of conscription orders & this is also what is asked by God.  Franz tells the father "God has nothing to do with this."  Franz & his wife pose a humbleness in their stance and in their steadfast acceptance of each other's love.  The Catholic Church which supported Hitler's regime declared Jagerstatter a martyr in 2007; a shameless exoneration for their evil stance during WWII.  This is a film of great beauty and the profundity for reconciling one's knowledge or morality as omnipotent despite one's impact or lack thereof.  Numerous Nazi officials brutally beat him, repeatedly threaten execution (by guillotine) for treason and all for his futile obdurance.  Franz forlornly observes "The sun still shines down on the good and the evil alike."  Malik's masterpiece poses the impossible scenario of standing up against unsurmountable impediments and considers what would be possible should courageous individuals condemn rather than condone or align with what they know is anathema.