A Song for Gaza: The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed Performed by Leo Rosselson. Featured on the website of the Stop the War Coalition (UK), originally on www.leonrosselson.co.uk Lyrics: I was watching the news from Gaza And I fell asleep on my chair And when I awoke from my slumber A young girl was standing there. She said, …
Category: My father
Aug 28
My Father, the Mensch
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father, My Life, My mother
Postwar Germany, according to the writer Manfred Jurgensen, who grew up there, was “a period which often posed much more danger than the war itself. Severe deprivation, starvation and death were everywhere. This generation grew up without any real parental guidance and direction, and living through the years where all norms of society were virtually …
- Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, Basel, Berlin, Berne, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Claudia von Aleman, Communists, Düsseldorf, Eberhard Bethge, Ernst Röhm, Eugen Kogon, France, Frankfurt, Fürstenhagen, Gestapo, Hans Schulz, Heinz Brüggensiecker, Helmut Wolf, Hitler, Ilse Margret-Vogel, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Krupp, Kurt Scharf, Manfred Jurgensen, Margot Nicolaus, Martin Niemöller, Nazi Party, Otto Fricke, Paul Schulze zur Wiesche, SA, Sigmund Freud, Social Democrats, Soviet Union, Ursula Hegi, Victoria Barnett, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Niemöller, William Manchester
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Jul 30
About My Father (3)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
(Continued from About my Father (2)) The ink was hardly dry on Albrecht’s BK ordination certificate when the official church got wind of it and took steps to prevent a repetition. In a letter dated May 7, 1941, while Albrecht’s regiment was nearing the Soviet border, the then president of the Konsistoriat in Düsseldorf, the …
- Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, August Mahrarens, BK (Bekennende Kirche), concentration camp, Dachau, DAhlem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Düsseldorf, Essen, Günther Dehn, Hans Asmussen, Hans Kerrl, Heinrich Held, Heinrich Schlier, Heinrich Vogel, Helmut Gollwitzer, Helmut Wolf, Hermann Göring, Johannes Böttcher, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Karl Barth, Karl Euler, Karl Friedrich Horn, Karl Koch, Legalization, Lieselotte Wolf, Martin Albertz, Martin Bormann, RAL Sohns, Russia, Waldemar Sinning, Wilhelm Busch
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Jul 28
About My Father (2)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
(Continued from About My Father (1)) Those “trials by fire” were not far off. After a year of study in Basel, in 1938 Albrecht returned to Germany. He spent approximately a month in Berlin, finishing his theological studies. In early summer of 1938 Albrecht spent almost a month traveling in the UK, visiting London and …
- 1938, Adolf Hitler, Albrecht Frtiz Nicolaus, Anna K. Nicolaus, Basel, Berlin, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Braunfels, Christmas, concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Darmstadt, Denis Riley, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Elberfeld, England, Essen, Essen-Werden, France, Frankfurt, Germany, Gestapo, Gladys Riley, Hans Schulz, Hartmut Ludwig, Heinrich Held, Heinz Brüggensiecker, Helmut Gollwitzer, Helmut Wolf, Himmler, Italy, Joachim Beckmann, Johannes Beckmann, Johannes Böttcher, Johannes Schlingensiepen, Karl Barth, Kurt Scharf, London, Mail surveillance, Margot Nicolaus, Maria Netter, Martin Karl Nicolaus, Martin Niemöller, Munich Agreement, National Socialist Student Union, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Otto Fricke, Paragraph 90f, Pastor D. Hesse, Pastor Hasse, Paul Schulze von Wiesche, Peace Pledge Union, Poland, Presbyterian Church, Rechtsanwalt Metzger, Rhineland, Roosevelt, Russia, Rzadkowka, Schutzhaft, Siberia, Sondergericht, Strasbourg, Sudetenland, Switzerland, theological exam, Ukraine, Untersuchungsgefängnis, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Busch, Zwiahel
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Jul 21
About the Authentic Church
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father, My mother
Being German and therefore having to begin with beginnings, I started writing my life story by writing the life story of my father. My father’s life story, though brief — he died at age 27 — was very wrapped up with the German Bekennende Kirche, the Authentic Church, so that in order to understand him, …
- Bad Oeynhausen, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Communists, DAhlem, Deutsche Christen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Elisabeth Schmitz, Frankfurt, Gerhard Jacobi, Heinrich Grüber, Hitler, Jews, Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, Nazi Party, Pastors' Emergency League, Pfarrernotbund, theological exam, Victoria Barnett, Weimar Republic, Women
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Jul 21
Thumbnail Profile of My Father
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
This thumbnail profile of my father appears in Protestantische Profile im Ruhrgebiet: 500 Lebensbilder aus 5 Jahrhunderten (Protestant Profiles in the Ruhr Region: 500 profiles from 5 centuries), edited byMichael Basse, Traugott Jähnichen and Harald Schroeter-Wittke, Hartmut Spenner publishers, Kamen (Germany) 2009, pp. 592-593. The author is Hartmut Ludwig, a church historian and Doctor of …
- 1934, 1938, 1939, 1941, Abitur, Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, Arbeitsdienst, Basel, Berlin, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Braunfels, England, Essen-Werden, France, Germany, Gestapo, Hartmut Ludwig, Hitler, Karl Barth, Kiel, Kiev, Krupp, Marburg, Margot Nicolaus, Munich Agreement, Rzadkowka, Soviet Union, theological exam, Tübingen, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Busch
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Jul 12
About My Father (1)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
Growing up as a bomb baby in Germany, as I did, it was common not to have a living father. About 2.5 million German children lost their fathers in World War II. Source. In my case, my father lost his life two months before I was born, so we never knew one another. From my …
- Abitur, Albrecht Fritz Nicolaus, Anna Kroneberg, Arbeitsdienst, Barmen Declaration, Basel, BBC, Berlin, BK (Bekennende Kirche), Bonn, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Communists, DCSV, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Düsseldorf, Eberhard Bethge, England, Essen, Frankfurt, Fürstenhagen, Germaniawerft, Germany, Gestapo, Günther van Norden, Günther Völker, Hartmut Ludwig, Hegel, Heinz Brüggensiecker, Helmut Hesse', Hitler, Hollerith, Holocaust Museum, Hotel Albrechtshof, Humboldt University, Jews, Joachim Hanschkatz, Karl Barth, Kiel, Krupp, Lieselotte Nicolaus, Los Angeles, Mail surveillance, Marburg, Margot Nicolaus, Maria Netter, Martin Karl Nicolaus, Martin Niemöller, Minna Kroneberg, Nazi Party, Pomerania, Reichstag, Rhineland, Röhm\, Russia, Ruth Wendlandt, SA, Social Democrats, Switzerland, Tübingen, Victoria Barnett, Wilhelm Busch
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