Post by Daniel on Dec 1, 2015 12:58:46 GMT -5
Faith, Forgiveness, and Fascism: Holocaust Survivor Testimony
David Fiorazo
There’s a saying that what we don’t learn from history we are destined to repeat. Most of us are too young to personally remember the horror of Nazi Germany and The Holocaust while many schools today no longer teach about this tragic history. How could such an advanced, educated, industrialized, and religious people allow a man and a movement to takeover their nation and do things that most would consider unthinkable?
After the uncertain times of WWI, many German people longed for the ‘good old days’ and a man came on the scene promising hope and change. They thought Hitler was the one to lead them to revival as he spoke of national pride and prosperity, but government quickly became their god.
Christian pastors were lied to, intimidated, and forced to conform to the state. Bibles, crosses, and religious instruction were removed from schools and replaced with Nazi indoctrination and propaganda. Six million Jews were rounded up, worked to death, gassed or slaughtered; Fifty million dead in a second World War to bring in a “New Order.”
Today we are blessed with the opportunity to hear first hand from one who not only remembers, but lived through Hitler’s hell. Holocaust survivor, Anita Dittman, shares her story and testimony with us. A child ballerina star, once Hitler came to power she was banned from performing because she was Jewish. Dittman tells about her family’s struggle going from living in luxury to sudden poverty; relatives disappearing, forced labor; a nurse who tried to kill her and how God miraculously spared her from rape and saved Anita’s life so she could witness to the Nazi nurse!
We also take a brief but sobering look at the very real possibility that a power-hungry, godless government in America is ushering in another kind of era in which Bible believing Christians may be silenced and singled out; sued, rounded up, and imprisoned or killed.
continue reading, listen to podcast
standupforthetruth.com/2015/11/a-new-era-of-fism-in-america/
David Fiorazo
There’s a saying that what we don’t learn from history we are destined to repeat. Most of us are too young to personally remember the horror of Nazi Germany and The Holocaust while many schools today no longer teach about this tragic history. How could such an advanced, educated, industrialized, and religious people allow a man and a movement to takeover their nation and do things that most would consider unthinkable?
After the uncertain times of WWI, many German people longed for the ‘good old days’ and a man came on the scene promising hope and change. They thought Hitler was the one to lead them to revival as he spoke of national pride and prosperity, but government quickly became their god.
Christian pastors were lied to, intimidated, and forced to conform to the state. Bibles, crosses, and religious instruction were removed from schools and replaced with Nazi indoctrination and propaganda. Six million Jews were rounded up, worked to death, gassed or slaughtered; Fifty million dead in a second World War to bring in a “New Order.”
Today we are blessed with the opportunity to hear first hand from one who not only remembers, but lived through Hitler’s hell. Holocaust survivor, Anita Dittman, shares her story and testimony with us. A child ballerina star, once Hitler came to power she was banned from performing because she was Jewish. Dittman tells about her family’s struggle going from living in luxury to sudden poverty; relatives disappearing, forced labor; a nurse who tried to kill her and how God miraculously spared her from rape and saved Anita’s life so she could witness to the Nazi nurse!
We also take a brief but sobering look at the very real possibility that a power-hungry, godless government in America is ushering in another kind of era in which Bible believing Christians may be silenced and singled out; sued, rounded up, and imprisoned or killed.
continue reading, listen to podcast
standupforthetruth.com/2015/11/a-new-era-of-fism-in-america/