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Christ in catastrophe : an inward record by Emil… door Emil Fuchs
A German teacher discusses living during Hitler's regime, and out of that suffering discovering God.
Emiel Fuchs was born in Germany in 1874. He was a minister in various places and joined Friends in 1925. In 1931 he became professor of religious science at the teachers College at Kiel.
He was dismissed from Keil when the Nazi party came to power. Shortly thereafter he was imprisoned. After he was released, he was under the constant watch of the Gestapo; but until 1936 he was able, together with his sons, to assist the escape of refugees by operating a car hire business. The vehicles were confiscated in 1936. His sons fled Germany. His daughter, a sensitive painter who had given herself to political work, help her husband escape, but she did not know where he was or how she and her infant son could join him, and she began to suffer recurrent disturbance of mind. Finally she threw herself from a moving train to her death.
Emile Fuchs taught at Pendle Hill for a year. He left us this manuscript which is about his life and experience in Germany, but it is about all life and all experience. It is the witness of a man who is both saint and prophet.… (meer)
He was dismissed from Keil when the Nazi party came to power. Shortly thereafter he was imprisoned. After he was released, he was under the constant watch of the Gestapo; but until 1936 he was able, together with his sons, to assist the escape of refugees by operating a car hire business. The vehicles were confiscated in 1936. His sons fled Germany. His daughter, a sensitive painter who had given herself to political work, help her husband escape, but she did not know where he was or how she and her infant son could join him, and she began to suffer recurrent disturbance of mind. Finally she threw herself from a moving train to her death.
Emile Fuchs taught at Pendle Hill for a year. He left us this manuscript which is about his life and experience in Germany, but it is about all life and all experience. It is the witness of a man who is both saint and prophet.… (meer)
A German Quaker describes his family's sufferings and imprisonment at the hands of the Nazis in Germany prior to and during WWII.
Fuchs lived in Germany as a Quaker is the 1930s and through the war, and gives us this account of how he found Christ's presence in the midst of catastrophic suffering, and how it sustained him.
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