Interior of Berlin's Fasanenstrasse synagogue after Kristallnacht. The Jewish Community Center was built in its place in 1959.As Western Civilization now confronts a new form of fascism, Islamofascism, one wonders if history will repeat itself what with the likes of the Islamic nazis running the regime in Iran and other totalitarian states like Syria, etc.
Not that there are any more than 100 Jews left in the country.
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Interior of Berlin's Fasanenstrasse synagogue after Kristallnacht. The Jewish Community Center was built in its place in 1959.There was NO excuse for what happened...none whatsoever.
Thought it was interesting that oppression started and ended today in different years.
And some deny it ever happened.
Not to diminish the evil of what happened on Kristalnacht and the Holocaust in general, but whenever stories like this are told, I always think of the many forgotten stories of the other holocaust that was occurring 1000 miles to the east at the same time. It’s tragic that the crimes of Soviet Communism do not get the same treatment by the media and academia that the Nazis’ crimes get.
Especially considering the author is 85.
It was a significant date for the Nazis because it marked the twentieth anniversary of the end of War, the overthrow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the birth of the degenerate Wiemar Republic. I don't think many folks know or care that Luther was born on that date. I don't even know why the author mentioned it. Maybe because Marty was anti semitic and the author hoped to associate him in some convoluted way with K-nite.
Under certain circumstances such a thing could happen here. There is more than one group among us that does not have the best interests of the country in their hearts. Anger among the people can reach a point where it explodes into action. It makes no difference whether the anger is righteous or incited. The physical result is the same; lots of corpses.
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
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....?”