BONHOEFFER, AGENT OF GRACE

This award-winning film is the true story of Nazi resistor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a compelling drama of love, courage and personal sacrifice. It is the story of one memorable man who would not keep silent, but chose instead to fight the Nazis from within the little-known German resistance movement. Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman, was in New York in 1939. Fully aware of the danger he chose to return to Germany and fight the Nazis. He taught young men studying to enter the ministry for the Confessing Church, a branch of the Lutheran church, resisting Nazi doctrine. He was imprisoned for his role in smuggling Jews to Switzerland. On April 9, 1945, he was hanged, a mere four weeks before Germany surrendered.

The film won the Best Film Award at the International Film Festival in Monte Carlo in 2000. It was broadcast nationwide by PBS in prime time in June of last and January of this year.

Bonhoeffer is available as a video, both in English and in German, from Augsburg Fortress Publishers at 1-800-328-4648 for $29.95 & s/h. Through the generosity of the Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL), a fraternal benefit society, German teachers can receive a complimentary copy of a teacher's guide, in German or English, by writing to them at 4321 N. Ballard Road, Appleton, WI 54919-0001.

STORIES OF AMERICANS WHO CAME FROM GERMANY

A CD Rom of text and images for teaching and learning about the almost 400 years of Germans on the North American Continent. It also includes speakers of German from Austria, Switzerland, and from the settlement areas in Eastern Europe.

To order your copy from GM Bookchest call 217 782-4823;

THE GERMAN-AMERICANS

This WLIW21 New York Production premiered last November and was broadcast nationwide by PBS in prime time in March.

THE GERMAN AMERICANS highlights German-Americans who embodied the spirit of the German work ethic and philosophy and became true American icons, from President Eisenhower to Babe Ruth to Lawrence Welk to Charles Schulz. It explores the German-American experience and celebrates the cultural ties that still bond generations after nearly four hundred years in America using archival film, photos, and modern footage. Actor Eric Braeden (The Young and The Restless), Susan Eisenhower (granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower), Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conductor Erich Kunzel, Henry Steinway of Steinway and Sons pianos, composer Hans Zimmer, Fox/5 New York news anchor John Roland, corporate leaders, educators, scientists, and other prominent members of the community share their stories.

Personal recollections from four generations of German-Americans come from those who spent their youth in the midst of World War I and II anti-German hysteria to Generation X-ers rediscovering their family's German pride. Erich Kunzel recalls being sent to the principal's office on his first day of Kindergarten in the late 1930s simply because, when asked to recite his name and address, he did so in German. Actor Eric Braeden, who came to the United States after a childhood in the Third Reich, co-founded the German-American Cultural Society to promote cultural understanding, and young German-Americans interviewed in the program speak to a new wave of cultural pride that found its first swell during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations and continued with President Reagan's 1987 reinstatement of German Day after a 70-year moratorium. And Susan Eisenhower explains, that her 19th century ancestors were "not much different than the Schultzes and the Schwartzes and the Weicherts and the Werners down the street" in today's German neighborhoods.

THE GERMAN AMERICANS was made possible by Siemens Corporation, DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund, The German Information Center, and The Prechter Endowment for the 21st Century. For additional information visit the station's website at www.wliw.org/

OFF TO NEW SHORES: 300 YEARS OF GERMAN IMMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA

This video was produced 1983 for the Tricentennial of German group immigration, the settling of Germantown, in 1983. It is still available from German Language Video Center A Division of Heidelberg Haus 7625 Pendleton Pike Indianapolis, IN 46226-5298 (317) 547-1257: Fax #317-547-1263 www.germanvideo.com

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