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 …
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Aug 28
My Father, the Mensch
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father, My Life, My mother
- 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 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 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 …
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