(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 …
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Jul 28
About My Father (2)
- By Martin Nicolaus in My father
- 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
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 …
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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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