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To: Alex Murphy
the home of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran minister, who during World War II was a central figure in the Protestant church's struggle against Nazism

A bit misleading, as the vast majority of German Protestants supported Hitler, but then I guess if Pope Pius XII can be falsely accused of being "Hitler's Pope", I guess any sort of distortion of the truth is acceptable nowadays.

2 posted on 11/03/2007 1:51:18 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Supported Hitler? Heck, some German Protestants signed on to the Nazi Protestant Church: http://wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/caseforgermany/cfg14.html

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1975382,00.html

Strange that we never hear about that isn’t it?

http://zadokromanus.blogspot.com/2007/10/nazi-church-for-sale.html


3 posted on 11/03/2007 2:43:13 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: Unam Sanctam

Lutherans always have issues with their founder, Martin Luther, who became a violent anti-semite; and with their “German roots,” as the great majority of German Lutherans supported Hitler. Bonhoeffer and others founded the Confessing Church as a protest against the Nazi-Lutheran merger.

I have no prejudice against Lutherans today, but I do question those who market distorted history, such as this tour group.


15 posted on 11/03/2007 11:10:44 PM PDT by iowamark (FDT: Some think the way to beat the Democrats in November is to be more like them.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

As did the majority of Catholics in Austria and Germany (and Hitler was arguably more popular in the former than the latter). Your point?


36 posted on 11/04/2007 8:36:56 PM PST by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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