Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Quote for Day: "People Voted for Hitler as They Voted for Putin and Trump, Because They Didn't Want to Give up Their Own Privileges"

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PRRI, " Despite Chaos and Controversy, Trump Favorability Stable Throughout 2019 ," 26 Feb. 2020 In her book Learning from ...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Diane Reynolds' The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Biographical-Theological Evidence

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Diane Reynolds,  The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany  (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2016) ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Charles Marsh's Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory, on Bonhoeffer's (Highly Contested) Homosexuality

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Here's another set of excerpts I'd like to share with you from Charles Marsh's excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,  ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Charles Marsh, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on the Sordid History of German Church's Response to Hitler: We Forget at Our Peril

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I've just finished reading Charles Marsh's  Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer  (NY: Knopf, 2014), and would like t...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Donald Trump and the Scouts: Feeding Appetite for Disdain of Targeted Minorities (and, No, the Hitler Parallel Is Not Overblown)

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Trump tells Boy Scouts he hopes GOP can kill Obamacare (stripping 22M+ of health coverage) Boy Scouts respond by cheering "USA USA...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

"A Hard Core of Those Enthralled by Trump Cannot Be Convinced Otherwise": America's "Triumph of the Will" Moment

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John Feffer, "The Trump Dystopian Nightmare: Nuclear War, Climate Change and a Clash of Civilizations Are All on the Horizon...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Continuing Moral Witness: Churches and Their Apologists Offer Language of Healing in Face of Trump Presidency. We Need Language of Resistance.

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"The Further A Society Drifts From The Truth, The More It Will Hate Those That Speak It." ~George Orwell pic.twitter.com/C...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Diary of a Man in Despair on Hitler: "Is There a Nation Today So Lacking in Perspective As to Deny the Possibility That Such a Mass Psychosis Could at Some Time in Its History Occur?"

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Reading Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Diary of a Man in Despair , trans. Paul Rubens (NY: Macmillan, 1970), as Donald Trump campai...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Why Was "This Mixture of Arrogance and Hankering for Advantage Breaking Out in Germany, of All Places?": The Testimony of Joachim Fest's Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood As Donald Trump Rises to Power

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In his memoir entitled Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood  (NY: Other Press, 2012) (trans. Martin Chalmers), Joachim Fest talks about...