Remembering Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass' (November 9, 1938)

SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | November 9, 2007 | Hilda Pierce

[isrul]

Just because people decry Nazi behavior, that won’t stop them from doing virtually the same things because, after all, they will be justified, in their own minds.

[isrul]

I don’t know. I didn’t author the statement, just commented on its relevance.

[isrul]

I think Luther’s antipathy toward the Pope and Papacy and his actions resulting from both are of much greater historical significance than his beliefs about Jews. Europe was anti semitic before Marty came along.

[SoCalPol]

I saw Buchenwald when I was in East Germany in 1983.

Also a great uncle in Paton’s 3rd was one of those who liberated Buchenwald

[SoCalPol]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great Lutheran Pastor

When Hitler came to power in 1933, Bonhoeffer became a leading spokesman for the Confessing Church, the center of Protestant resistance to the Nazis

In 1939 his brother-in-law introduced him to a group planning the overthrow of Hitler, and he made significant contributions to their work. (He was at this time an employee of the Military Intelligence Department.) He was arrested in April 1943 and imprisoned in Berlin. After the failure of the attempt on Hitler’s life in April 1944, he was sent first to Buchenwald and then to Schoenberg Prison.

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came in, saying, “Prisoner Bonhoeffer, make ready and come with us,” the standard summons to a condemned prisoner. As he left, he said to another prisoner, “This is the end — but for me, the beginning — of life.” He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

Tens of Thousands of other Lutherans met the same fate

[Diogenesis]

SSDD

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[ruthles]

I often think of that too. I think even more people were murdered there.

[ruthles]

I teach English as a Second language, and last night I reminded the students that there would be no class on Monday due to Veteran’s Day. I then felt obligated to talk about what it is to be a Veteran, and i gave a very brief review of Germany after WW1, the slow sanctions placed on Jews which led up to the concentration camps. I felt it my patriotic duty to honor soliders.
I have two Arabic students. All along I was thinking “I wonder if they don’t believe the Holocaust occurred....?”

[DogByte6RER]

I agree with you 100%

Remember that at the time that Kristallnacht occurred, Hitler and Stalin were also good buddies and less than two years later they carved up Poland together.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I felt it my patriotic duty to honor soliders.

THANK you!!!!