“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”Tagged: Holocaust, Historical Quotes, History Quotes
“The only thing we could not grow accustomed to was the fact that half the ship's company were seasick and the remainder had to clean up all day long.”Tagged: Seasickness
“I cannot help saying quite harshly and bluntly that the Jewish people came to grief and disgrace because of its own ‘Positive Christianity!’ It (the Jewish people) bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought…”Tagged: Negative Christianity, Jewish People, jesus, Sinners, Repent
“On Wednesday the secret police penetrated the closed church of Friedrich Werder and arrested at the altar eight members of the Council of Brethren....I think how yesterday at Saarbrucken six women and a trusted man of the Protestant community were arrested because they had circulated an election…”Tagged: Christian, Nazis, Protestants, Secret Police, Persecution of Christians
“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance,…”Tagged: German, Perish, Despair, Defiance, Nihilism
“We have come through a time of peril—and we are not finished with it yet—when we were told: ‘Everything will be quite different when you as a Church cease to have such an entirely different flavor—when you cease to practice preaching which is the opposite of what the world around you preaches. You…”Tagged: Peril, Tribulation, Nazis, Church, Creed
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and…”Tagged: Socialist, Trade Unionist, Jews, Nazis