Fascinantno je, kako so deklariranega nacista in antisemita opisali v holocavst enciklopediji in dejstvo, da so deklariranega nacista, antikomunista, antidemokrata in antisemita večkrat zaprli , prvič 1935 zadnjič leta 1939 in so ga ovobodili šele Američani leta 1945.
Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller emerged as an opponent of Adolf Hitler and was imprisoned in camps for 7 years. Learn about the complexities surrounding his beliefs.
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tako kot pri nekaterih politikih pri nas... pri katerih zgodovinske knjige kar pozabljajo, da jim nekatere opcije niso bile intimne.
Like most Protestant pastors, Niemöller was a national conservative, and openly supported the conservative opponents of the
Weimar Republic.
He thus welcomed Hitler's accession to power in 1933, believing that it would bring a national revival.
[13]: 235 In his autobiography,
From U-Boat to Pulpit published in the spring of 1933, he called the time of "the System" (a pejorative name for the Weimar Republic) the "years of darkness" and
hailed Adolf Hitler for beginning a "national revival".[13]: 235
Niemöller's autobiography received positive reviews in Nazi newspapers and was a bestseller.[13]: 235 However, he decidedly opposed the Nazis' "
Aryan Paragraph" to Jewish converts to Lutheranism. In 1936, he signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen which criticized Nazi policies and declared the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of
charity.
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However, Niemöller only gradually abandoned his national conservative views. Even as he opposed the Nazis, he made pejorative remarks about Jews of faith while protecting – in his own church – baptised Christians, persecuted as Jews by the Nazis, due to their forefathers' Jewish descent. In one sermon in 1935, he remarked: "What is the reason for [their] obvious punishment, which has lasted for thousands of years? Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the cross!"
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