(Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke, legendary military genius and Christian who plotted with Bonhoeffer for Hitler's Assination)
- Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
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Showing posts with label Nazis. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Chivalry Of A Bygone Era?
"Early on he (Moltke) tried to convince the Nazis to abide by the Geneva Convention, but Keitel dismissed it as a “notion of chivalry of a bygone era.""
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
War And Dirty Church Decisions
"Even if Bonhoeffer could have explained that he was in fact working against Hitler, many in the Confessing Church would still have been confused, and others would have been outraged. For a pastor to be involved in a plot whose linchpin was the assassination of the head of state during a time of war, when brothers and sons and fathers were giving their lives for their country, was unthinkable. Bonhoeffer had come to a place where he was in many ways very much alone."
- Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Intended Church Death
"In January 1941 Bonhoeffer traveled to Munich to see Justus Perels, the head lawyer for the Confessing Church. Perels was working hard to lobby the Reich government on its treatment of Confessing Church pastors; so many of them were being drafted and sent into battle that the Confessing Church was being decimated. This was intentional on the part of the Nazis."
- Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.
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