Carolina QuotesFor the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
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On the lack of passionate resistence to Nazi policies of persecution of Jews, even in the Confessing Church he helped found in opposition to Nazi influences on churches, in a letter written before leaving Germany in 1935, as quoted in Hitler's Willing Executioners : Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1997) by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, p. 437.
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- 1935
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- p. 437
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“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church…” Karl Barth. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-934461E2B4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/934461e2b4
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