The Nazis Persecuted Him. The Soviets Killed Him. Today He’s Barely Known.
James Edwards’s biography recovers the memory of German theologian Ernst Lohmeyer.
Christopher Gehrz
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I teach the history of 20th-century Europe, I incorporate stories from
Christians who resisted the evils of totalitarianism. That list always
includes martyred anti-Nazis like the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and
the university student Sophie Scholl. But thanks to theologian James R.
Edwards, this fall I can add one more name to that cloud of witnesses:
the German Lutheran Ernst Lohmeyer, who stood fast against Nazism and
survived fighting in two world wars, only to be executed by Soviet ...
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Monday, July 22, 2019
the memory of German theologian Ernst Lohmeyer
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