John Yenchko tells how W. H. Auden, a 20th-century Pulitzer Prize winning poet, playwright, and literary critic was converted:

Auden saw a movie in 1940 produced by Hitler's Third Reich. It followed the invasion and Blitzkrieg through Poland. Called Psyche in Poland, and it was the propaganda piece of their victory. Many Germans who had immigrated to the United States were sitting in the theater. Whenever a Polish person [appeared] on the screen, usually led by a German, people in the audience would scream, "Kill him! Kill him!" in a frenzied commitment to the destruction of Germany's enemies.

Auden, this magnificent, wonderful, European, enlightened intellectual, was so shocked that he walked out of the theater.

He later said one question ran through his mind: "What response can my enlightened, humanistic tradition give to this evil, to those who cry out for the blood of innocent victims?" He saw the bankruptcy of humanism. He began to sense that the only answer to evil would be found in God and the revelation of God in the Bible. He was convicted of God's holiness and his own sinfulness. In 1940 he became a Christian.