Thomas F. Rogers was fascinated by the wrenching conflicts between personal conscience and institutional loyalty.
Rogers, a devout Latter-day Saint and English professor at Brigham Young University who burst onto Mormonism’s literary scene in the 1970s with his play, “Hubener,” died Monday. He was 91.
“Hubener” was based on the true story of Helmut Hubener, a 17-year-old Latter-day Saint in Germany who exposed Hitler’s lies about the government’s “criminal behavior” in 1942 by printing pamphlets of the truth. Others in the young man’s Latter-day Saint congregation — notably the “branch president” — were Nazis and worried about how Hubener’s actions may have affected the survival of their little church.
Indeed, the teen was later executed. The play centers on the interactions between Hubener, who felt compelled to oppose the Nazi regime, and the Latter-day Saint leader who “excommunicated” him for it.
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