The
National Socialist Workers' Party leader, Adolph Hitler, became
Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and began implementing a plan
of universal healthcare, with no regard for conscience.
The New York Times reported October 10, 1933:
"Nazi Plan to Kill Incurables to End Pain; German Religious Groups Oppose Move...
The
Ministry of Justice...explaining the Nazi aims regarding the German
penal code, today announced its intentions to authorize physicians to
end the sufferings of the incurable patient...in the interest of true
humanity..."
The New York Times continued:
"The Catholic newspaper
Germania
hastened to observe: 'The Catholic faith binds the conscience of its
followers not to accept this method.'...In Lutheran circles, too, life
is regarded as something that God alone can take...
Euthanasia...has become a widely discussed word in the Reich...No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed."
When
Germany's economy suffered, expenses had to be cut from the national
healthcare plan, such as keeping alive handicapped, insane, chronically
ill, elderly and those with dementia.
They were considered "lebensunwertes leben"-life unworthy of life.
Then criminals, convicts, street bums, beggars and gypsies, considered "leeches" on society, met a similar fate.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger had been the editor of the
Birth Control Review, a magazine that published in April 1933 an article by Ernst Rudin, one of the 'fathers of racial hygiene.'
Ernst
Rudin advised the Nazi Socialist Workers Party to prevent hereditary
defectives genes from being passed on to future generations by people
considered by the State to be inferior mankind - 'untermensch'.
Labeling
the Aryan race 'ubermensch' (super mankind), the National Socialist
Workers Party enacted horrific plans to purge the human gene pool of
what they considered 'inferior' races, resulting in 6 million Jews and
millions of others dying in gas chambers and ovens.
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated in 1977:
"When
the first 273,000 German aged, infirm and retarded were killed in gas
chambers there was no outcry from that medical profession... and it was
not far from there to Auschwitz."
British Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge explained:
"We
have...for those that have eyes to see, an object lesson in what the
quest for 'quality of life' without reference to 'sanctity of life' can
involve...
The origins of the Holocaust lay, not in Nazi
terrorism...but in...Germany's acceptance of euthanasia and
mercy-killing as humane and estimable."
In
1933, the German Reichstag (Capitol Building) was set on fire under
suspicious conditions, creating a crisis which Hitler used to suspend
basic rights, arrest his political opponents and have them shot without a
trial.
Hitler forced old military leaders to retire. He swayed the public with mesmerizing speeches.
An SA Oberführer warned of an ordinance by the provisional Bavarian Minister of the Interior:
"The
deadline set...for the surrender of weapons will expire on March 31,
1933. I therefore request the immediate surrender of all arms...
Whoever
does not belong to one of these named units (SA, SS, and Stahlhelm)
and...keeps his weapon without authorization or even hides it, must be
viewed as an enemy of the national government and will be held
responsible without hesitation and with the utmost severity."
Heinrich Himmler, head of Nazi S.S. ("Schutzstaffel"-Protection Squadron), stated:
"Germans
who wish to use firearms should join the S.S. or the S.A. Ordinary
citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
When a suspected homosexual youth shot a Nazi diplomat in Paris, it was used as an excuse to confiscate all firearms from Jews.
German newspapers printed, November 10, 1938:
"Jews Forbidden to Possess Weapons By Order of SS Reichsführer Himmler, Munich...
'Persons
who, according to the Nürnberg law, are regarded as Jews, are forbidden
to possess any weapon. Violators will be condemned to a concentration
camp and imprisoned for a period of up to 20 years.'"
The New York Times, November 9, 1938, reported:
"The
Berlin Police...announced that...the entire Jewish population of Berlin
had been 'disarmed' with the confiscation of 2,569 hand weapons, 1,702
firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Any Jews still found in
possession of weapons without valid licenses are threatened with the
severest punishment."
Earlier
in his political career, Hitler pretended to be a Christian in order to
get elected, but once in power he revealed his nazified social
Darwinism beliefs and became openly hostile toward Christianity.
Of the Waffengesetz (Nazi Weapons Law), March 18, 1938, Hitler stated at a dinner talk, April 11, 1942 (
Hitler's Table Talk 1941-44: His Private Conversations, 2nd Edition, 1973, p. 425-6, translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens):
"The
most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who
have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own
downfall by so doing...
So let's not have any native militia or
native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for
the maintenance of law and order."
Franklin D. Roosevelt stated of Hitler, December 15, 1941:
"Government to him is not the servant...of the people but their absolute master and the dictator of their every act...
The
rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which seemed to
the Founders of the Republic inalienable, were, to Hitler and his
fellows, empty words..."
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FDR continued:
"Hitler
advanced: That the individual human being has no rights whatsoever in
himself...no right to a soul of his own, or a mind of his own, or a
tongue of his own, or a trade of his own; or even to live where he
pleases or to marry the woman he loves;
That his only duty is the duty of obedience, not to his God, not to his conscience, but to Adolf Hitler...
His
only value is his value, not as a man, but as a unit of the Nazi
state... To Hitler, the church...is a monstrosity to be destroyed by
every means."
FDR stated in his State of the Union Address, January 6, 1942:
"The
world is too small...for both Hitler and God...Nazis have now announced
their plan for enforcing their...pagan religion all over the world...by
which the Holy Bible and the Cross of Mercy would be displaced by Mein
Kampf and the swastika."
Some Church leaders resisted Hitler, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born FEBRUARY 4, 1906.
He
studied in New York in 1930, where he met Frank Fisher, an
African-American seminarian who introduced him to Harlem's Abyssinian
Baptist Church.
He
was inspired by African-American spirituals and the preaching of Adam
Clayton Powell, Sr., who helped Bonhoeffer turn "from phraseology to
reality," motivating him to stand up against injustice.
Bonhoeffer helped found the Confessing Church in Germany, which refused to be intimidated by Hitler into silence.
In his book,
The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer rebuked nominal Christians:
"Cheap
grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance,
baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap
grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace
without Jesus Christ."
Bonhoeffer stated in a 1932 sermon:
"The
blood of martyrs might once again be demanded, but this blood, if we
really have the courage and loyalty to shed it, will not be innocent,
shining like that of the first witnesses for the faith. On our blood
lies heavy guilt, the guilt of the unprofitable servant."
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer warned Germans not to slip into the cult of Führer (leader)
worship, as he could turn out to be a Verführer (mis-leader, seducer).
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Jimmy Carter wrote in his book
Sources of Strength, 1997:
"Rev.
Niebuhr urged Dietrich Bonhoeffer to remain in America for his own
safety. Bonhoeffer refused. He felt he had to be among the other
Christians persecuted in Germany.
So he returned home, and...in resistance to Hitler...preached publicly against Nazism, racism, and anti-semitism...
Bonhoeffer was finally arrested and imprisoned..."
Jimmy Carter continued:
"Dietrich
Bonhoeffer died April 9, 1945, just a fe days before the allied armies
liberated Germany. He was executed on orders of Heinrich Himmler. He
died a disciple and a martyr..."
Jimmy Carter concluded:
"The same Holy Spirit...that gave Bonhoeffer the strength to stand up against Nazi tyranny is available to us today."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer challenged:
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ"
On February 16, 2002, Dr. James Dobson told the National Religious Broadcasters:
"Those of you who feel that the church has no responsibility in the cultural area...
What
if it were 1943 and you were in Nazi Germany and you knew what Hitler
was doing to the Jews... Would you say, 'We're not political-that's
somebody else's problem'?"
Dobson concluded:
"I thank God
Dietrich Bonhoeffer did not give that answer, and he was arrested by the
Nazis and hanged in 1945, naked and alone because he said, 'This is not
right.'"
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