Truth Makes You Free

About the Book

Set in Europe overshadowed by the looming threat of Nazism, this socio-historic drama tells the love story of two young Germans, the Catholic Diether and the Jewish Liese. On the brink of World War Two, amid rising political tension, Liese escapes with her family to Switzerland, while Diether remains in Germany. Pressed into military service, the broken-hearted Diether struggles to maintain his convictions, and is forced at last to make a terrible choice. As it chronicles the rise of fascism, the play examines the historical, philosophical, and psychological underpinnings of the Th ird Reich, as well as the toll that misguided idealism exacts on human relationships.

About the Author

Toni Bickl was born in a small village, fifty km south of Munich, Germany in 1927. He graduated as Building Engineer at the Oskar von Miller Polytechnic in Munich. In 1954 he immigrated to Canada where he was first active in building houses and working as draftsman for the survey branch of the Department of Highway, Ontario. In 1963 he joined the Federal government of Canada, Ottawa as a scientific computer programmer analyst. He also upgraded his education and received the M. Sc. Degree in Mathematics from Carleton University, Ottawa. Toni was always very interested in literature, history, religion and cosmology. As soon as he could retire he wrote the Drama “Wahrheit macht Frei! “ (The truth will make you free!) in German and “About God, the World and People” in English. Toni is married and has three children.