Kremer's father is a Catholic priest imprisoned in a concentration camp in Germany Nazi. Kremer is a theologian who belongs to an influential family of Luxembourg. After the German occupation refused to accept the racist laws that condemned the Jews and thus suffered the same fate as thousands of them locked up awaiting death. (Rights KARMA FILMS)
Totalitarianism: against the person
| experience of faith in a concentration camp, |
I Scheipers Hermann (1), I was born July 24, 1913. In 1937, at age 24, I ordered a priest. I lived and witnessed the takeover of Hitler as a student. The recent, terrible years of his dictatorship from 1941 to 1945 - were spent as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp. The body and spirit have survived the hell of Dachau, I owe entirely to my Christian faith.
I interned in the concentration camp to accuse me of religious assistance I do with the Poles sentenced to forced labor. These are considered enemies of the state security. For me, those sentenced to forced labor were 'subhuman' regarded as Nazi propaganda. They were the sons and daughters of God, like the Germans, they needed my attention and love. As I become a danger in challenging the safety of people and the state.
Dachau only killed thousands of priests and believers who knelt before the Nazis. Died of starvation, brutal treatment, executions, medical experiments in the gas chambers and epidemics of typhoid fever. In total there were an estimated 3 million martyrs in the twentieth century, of which 4000 are priests. Of the 3000 priests in Dachau died about 1000, of which 336 in the gas chambers. I had made the number 337 if God had not sent me an angel by my twin sister.
Both Hitler and Stalin and their followers in China and around the world wanted more than power. Demanded unconditional surrender your beliefs and their ideology, this was a new religion. Is called an ideological dictatorship, but more than that, is a totalitarian dictatorship. They demanded what only God can ask. You had to believe in their ideology and demanding your total surrender.
But we Christians all we owe to God. We must obey God more than men, so the Christian faith is incompatible with national socialism or communism. Groebbels wrote in his diary: 'The Führer is deeply religious but totally un-Christian. " Both dictatorships were imposed with great brutality, but also creating confusion lies and very refined.
still remember the Weimar time student, and how these dictators promised the 'healing' (Heil) to the person. The Nazis raised arm 'Heil Hitler' and the Communists with a closed fist "Heil Moscow." We are in a world disorder. Humanity needs healing because they are sick. As a Christian I have always had the firm conviction that only Christ can bring healing to their devotion and love until death on the cross.
The Nazis and Communists wanted to achieve healing with its own commitment not only through its self to force people and enforced by brutal violence and lies. That leads to contempt of the person, to inhumanity in the Nazi concentration camps and the gulags communists.
The drama of these two dictatorships of the twentieth century described by the apostle John in the last book of the Bible describes the battle between light and darkness: "The light came the world, but men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil '
This struggle between light and darkness reflected the film director Volker Schlöndorff dramatically in his film 'The Ninth Day' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH8ivgcmVFk The protagonist is a priest from Luxembourg, Jean Bernard. I met him at the gates of the gas chambers at Dachau. We are the only two that literally by a miracle, we were saved.
1 .- will be speaker-Emmaus Course 7 and May 8 201. (Excerpt from a conference in the U.S., 2009)
Dachau was the first concentration camp opened in Germany in 1933, near Dachau, Munich was first concentration camp for political prisoners . In total, there were 200,000 prisoners from more than 30 countries.
Interview with Hermann Scheipers
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDcd5sXOmeQ (in German)
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EMMAUS COURSE
Do we live in democracy? TODAY totalitarianism
7 and May 8, 2011
Emmaus House in Torremocha de Jarama (Madrid)
The course will include the provision of Hermann Scheipers; priest Survivor Concentration Camp Dachau
In authoritarian and totalitarian regimes has extreme the principle of the primacy of force over reason . The man has been forced to submit to a conception of reality imposed by force, and not reached by the effort of reason itself and the exercise of personal freedom. have to reverse the terms of this principle and recognize fully the rights of human consciousness (JP II)
Saturday May 7
History Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism .- Jorge Bandin. Historian
capitalism and totalitarianism today .- Magdalena Pérez. Economist.
Tertulia Sophie Scholl against totalitarianism. Rainer Uphoff. Author of the book of the same title.
experience of faith in the camp .- Hermann Scheipers. Priest Survivor Dachau concentration camp.
Theatre 'Jolanta' Company 'Seeds' ; on Irena Sendler
Sunday May 8
The Church against totalitarianism .- José R. Peláez .- Priest. ISD teacher
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