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While 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, it also marks the 75th anniversary of the death of two german resisters who were executed by the Nazis on April 9, 1945.
Today, it's my will and duty, as a German to honor
Georg Elsner and Dietrich Bonhöffer.
Today, it's my will and duty, as a German to honor
Georg Elsner and Dietrich Bonhöffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor (*1906), founding member of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church and a member of the resistance against Hitler.
Executed in the concentration camp Dachau on April 9, 1945. https://livingwittily.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/02/bonhoeffer-your-yes-to-god-requires-your-no-to-all-injustice-to-all-evil-to-all-lies.html
Executed in the concentration camp Dachau on April 9, 1945. https://livingwittily.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/02/bonhoeffer-your-yes-to-god-requires-your-no-to-all-injustice-to-all-evil-to-all-lies.html
"They showed that they followed their conscience and set their stamp on a part of German history that otherwise was defined by the darkness of Nazism"
Angela Merkel, 2019 https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-20/germany-honours-people-who-tried-to-assassinate-adolf-hitler/11327634?pfmredir=sm
Angela Merkel, 2019 https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-20/germany-honours-people-who-tried-to-assassinate-adolf-hitler/11327634?pfmredir=sm
These people, who tried to stop Hitler by all means, are the heroes in our collective german memory, our role models. That's why we resist early. That's why we were begging Americans to hit the streets to have Trump removed.
Germans tend to recognize fascists early on:
Germans tend to recognize fascists early on:
It seems worth noting that the german resistance were mainly brave civilians. And although Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg lead the plot to kill Hitler in 1944, the resistance within the German military was, in overall terms, tiny: 200 to 300 people were involved in the plot.
Read the experiences of the last remaining survivors, who were children when they were sent to the concentration camps.
"Icek was separated from his dad by a Nazi. 'He cried, he wanted to be with his father. But the German said: 'no, you (go) over there'."
Sounds familiar?
"Icek was separated from his dad by a Nazi. 'He cried, he wanted to be with his father. But the German said: 'no, you (go) over there'."
Sounds familiar?
Do you think, the children and parents currently locked up in U.S. concentration camps will ever get the chance to reunite?
How many of them will die of Covid-19?
We know, they are not cared for. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885379/The-survivors-Auschwitz-75th-anniversary-Holocaust.html
How many of them will die of Covid-19?
We know, they are not cared for. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885379/The-survivors-Auschwitz-75th-anniversary-Holocaust.html
I want to close with another german resistor, Pastor Martin Niemöller.
You may know this quote.
Stay safe everybody.
And never stop to #Resist
You may know this quote.
Stay safe everybody.
And never stop to #Resist
