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To: KC_Lion

RE: Nazi flags on all the churches in 1936.

It was not true for Catholic churches; I read a book about the situation in Germany with the Lutheran churches. Hitler infiltrated these churches with his minions and they literally took over the congregations and forced them to do many things which would imply agreement with the Nazi philosophy. There were many heroic Lutheran pastors who resisted, but resistance was dangerous. Dietrich Bonhoffer was an example of the consequences of opposing Hitler’s government. He was eventually executed for his faith.

Catholic priests here hunted down too and only escaped through the cunning of faithful members of their congregations.

This guy speaks as though he knows history, but he does not.


40 posted on 01/31/2018 10:57:22 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Gumdrop

Isn’t it interesting that Angela Merkel’s “father” supposedly was a Lutheran pastor who chose after the war to to head into East Germany


68 posted on 01/31/2018 11:39:34 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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