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Which Germany would you like to live in? Luther’s, Hitler’s, or Habermas’s?
In thinking about what worldviews are broadly contending for the human future, it occurs to me that Germany, over the past 500 years, has basically passed through the three key ones: The religious civilizational vision. This is embodied today by contemporary fundamentalists … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, history, Hitler, jurgen habermas, Martin Luther, philosophy, Politics, the Enlightenment, the future
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The Holocaust: Did Darwin Make Hitler Do It?
Richard Weikart, the historian and Discovery Institute ally who wrote From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), in a new book (coming out in two weeks) pushes forward with his thesis that “Darwinism” is … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Darwin, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary psychology, genocide, Germany, history, racism, Richard Weikart, science, the Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Hitler Shakes Hands with a Catholic Bishop
In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler sought, and received, support from many German Protestants and Catholics. At a Berlin rally, Hitler warmly greets a Roman Catholic Bishop, and is warmly greeted in return. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive
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Tagged adolf hitler, antisemitism, Auschwitz, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Germany, Holocaust, Jesus, Nazism, religion
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Studio Portrait of Kurt Klein, Age Two
Studio portrait, from 1922, of two-year-old Kurt Klein. In 1937, Kurt Klein’s parents sent him to live with relatives in Buffalo, New York. His parents, unable to immigrate, died at Auschwitz in 1942. According to the U.S. Holocaust Museum archives: Kurt was … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf hitler, Auschwitz, buffalo, death, fascism, Germany, Holocaust, Judaism, life, new york, the problem of evil, totalitarianism
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The Atheist Bus Ad Campaign Moves to Germany
So says Spiegel today: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The brightly colored ads were part of a provocative campaign on British buses. Spain reacted with its own string of atheist slogans, and now a … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Daniel Dennett, England, Germany, Michael Shermer, Politics, religion, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, spain
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Registration Certificate for a Girl Who Was Part of the Kindertransport to England, 1939
Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum archives 10,000 Jewish children—without their parents—were sent to England to escape the Nazis. In these kindertransports, imagine, if it is possible, the heart-wrenching moment of separation between each parent and each child. It is enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, death, family, genocide, Germany, Hitler, Holocaust, kindertransport, philosophy, Politics, religion, the Holocaust
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The Pope Shakes Hands with Anti-Semitism
It’s carnival season in Germany, and Der Spiegal showed today this float depicting the pope shaking hands with the anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, Bishop Richard Williams. More carnival photos here.
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Tagged anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Bishop Richard Williamson, carnival, Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Politics, pope benedict, religion, the Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: 280,000 to 380,000 Jews Dead or Deported from Romania
In December of 2008, Der Spiegel quoted a historian on Romania and the Holocaust: “Once they had gotten a taste of the license which prevailed in the first days of the war (among the Germans),” writes Avigdor Shachan, a witness … Continue reading
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Tagged der spiegel, genocide, Germany, history, Hitler, Holocaust, romania, the Holocaust
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Two Nations Squabble over the BUST of a WOMAN
According to Der Spiegel, Egypt is making a renewed attempt to get Germany to give the ancient bust of Nefertiti back: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has possession of the bust and rejects any charge of cheating. The idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhenaten, archeology, bust of Nefertiti, Camille Paglia, Egypt, Germany, history, Nefertiti
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: After the War, Looking into Death Camp Ovens
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Tagged antisemitism, authoritarianism, Christianity, death camp ovens, fascism, Germany, hell mouth, Hitler, Holocaust, Islam, poland, the Holocaust
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Buchenwald, 1945
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Tagged 1945, antisemitism, apologetics, buchenwald, Christianity, Germany, Holocaust, Islam, poland, the problem of suffering
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Nuremburg Testimony of Rudolf Hoess
After WWII, in 1946, Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz, gave testimony at the Nuremburg Trials, and this is part of what he said: Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, concentration camps, genocide, Germany, history, Judaism, nuremburg trials, rudolf hoess, the Holocaust, the shoah, war
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Barracks in a Subcamp of Auschwitz and Some Lines from Gerald Stern’s Poem, “Soap”
My counterpart was born in 1925 in a city in Poland—I don’t like to see him born in a little village fifty miles from Kiev and have to fight so wildly just for access to books, I don’t want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Auschwitz, concentration camps, Gerald Stern, Germany, history, Holocaust, Judaism, literature, Nazi Germany, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella
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Severe Hawkeye: Albrecht Durer Paints His 70 Year Old Father
“Marble heavy, a bag full of God.” –Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, art, fathers, Germany, God, God the Father, image, painting, photo, Santi Tafarella, Sylvia Plath
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Machine Romanticism: Getting Plenty of Iron in the German Diet, 1930s
“Hurrah, the butter is all gone!” I like the way this anti-Nazi poster saw through the facade of Hitler’s Germany—and located its driving energies in oral compulsion and cognitive dissonance.
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Tagged art, fascism, funny, Germany, Hitler, humor, Politics, propaganda, psychology, Santi Tafarella, World War II
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Prometheus Unbound 