Madness and Folly

How did an enlightened, educated, and morally developed culture like Germany of the 1930s perpetrate one of the greatest humanitarian crimes of all time?

"Hitler's Gospel," Commonweal Magazine (https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/hitler%E2%80%99s-gospel)

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D. T. Lancaster

D. T. Lancaster

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How did an enlightened, educated, and morally developed culture like Germany of the 1930s perpetrate one of the greatest humanitarian crimes of all time? This lecture takes a look at the problem from the perspective of the Gospels and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and it offers a dire warning for the current trajectory of political and social discourse in America. 

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