Why I hate the protection from the law which churches give their members.
February 12, 2013 at 8:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2013 at 8:06 am by Something completely different.)
Pastor Hoff was a German evangelical priest born in then east prussia, after the second world war during investigations which were conducted to put on trial former war criminals he came under the suspicion of having participated in several warcrimes in the soviet union.
The investigation had to be stopped due to to the death of the suspect and the case was never brought to a court of law. The investigation started because of a letter he wrote to his suppiriors on 29. September 1943 in which he wrote that he:
"in Sowjetrussland eine erhebliche Anzahl von Juden, nämlich viele Hunderte, habe liquidieren helfen".
"have helped in soviet russia to liquidate a great number of jews, namely hundrets."
When confronted with this by his church he claimed to have lied in order to prove his loyalty with his supiriors. He was therefor suspended from churchservices by the german evangelical church. He protested claiming that he was one of the first pastors who protested against antisemitism, yet whitnesses could provide a recorded speech during a cermon from him on the 10th anniversary of Hitlers rise to power in which he preached "May we destroy the jews with the help of god!". Yet after years of rehabilitation he would regain his possition again and practice as a priest, by possing as a repentant sinner.
Recently an investigation into the matter revailed that soviet whitnesses saw and testified to seeing him participate and plan warcrimes in the russian town of Klimowitschi.
It was shown that the brigade in which he was stationed was one of those which had the job of fighting "resistance" in conquered lands, which also included the liquidation of jews.
His history with the national socialist movement is well recorded. He came to berlin in 1930 were at first he went to court to sue a woman who claimed he was the father of her child.
He started holding cermons in which he praised the national socialists and was praised by Göbbels personaly. Later he would hold his cermons mainly infront of members of the SA. By the outbreak of the war he was sent to the eastern front.
It is certain that in this case a warcriminal avoided legal action against him due to his possition as a member and preacher in a church.
It is well known that after world war 2, several warcriminals within the churches were untouched because the allies considered them to be a importent tool in post war germany, thereby the "denazification" never really took part in german churches.
religion is an excuse to commit the worst crimes and get away with them.
http://einestages.spiegel.de/s/tb/27561/...-hoff.html
The investigation had to be stopped due to to the death of the suspect and the case was never brought to a court of law. The investigation started because of a letter he wrote to his suppiriors on 29. September 1943 in which he wrote that he:
"in Sowjetrussland eine erhebliche Anzahl von Juden, nämlich viele Hunderte, habe liquidieren helfen".
"have helped in soviet russia to liquidate a great number of jews, namely hundrets."
When confronted with this by his church he claimed to have lied in order to prove his loyalty with his supiriors. He was therefor suspended from churchservices by the german evangelical church. He protested claiming that he was one of the first pastors who protested against antisemitism, yet whitnesses could provide a recorded speech during a cermon from him on the 10th anniversary of Hitlers rise to power in which he preached "May we destroy the jews with the help of god!". Yet after years of rehabilitation he would regain his possition again and practice as a priest, by possing as a repentant sinner.
Recently an investigation into the matter revailed that soviet whitnesses saw and testified to seeing him participate and plan warcrimes in the russian town of Klimowitschi.
It was shown that the brigade in which he was stationed was one of those which had the job of fighting "resistance" in conquered lands, which also included the liquidation of jews.
His history with the national socialist movement is well recorded. He came to berlin in 1930 were at first he went to court to sue a woman who claimed he was the father of her child.
He started holding cermons in which he praised the national socialists and was praised by Göbbels personaly. Later he would hold his cermons mainly infront of members of the SA. By the outbreak of the war he was sent to the eastern front.
It is certain that in this case a warcriminal avoided legal action against him due to his possition as a member and preacher in a church.
It is well known that after world war 2, several warcriminals within the churches were untouched because the allies considered them to be a importent tool in post war germany, thereby the "denazification" never really took part in german churches.
religion is an excuse to commit the worst crimes and get away with them.
http://einestages.spiegel.de/s/tb/27561/...-hoff.html
