Nazi archives on the Church published...

[zil2]

...For those who can read German, anyway.  Here's a Deseret News article which sums things up and links to the source material (recently obtained by the B. H. Roberts Foundation).

[NeuroTypical]

The B.H Roberts foundation is a pretty interesting bunch of folks.  In a lot of ways, it's the younger generation LDS folks, to whom the us GenXers have passed the apologetic torch. 

Here's another one of their publications from their more culturally-focused online apologetic outreach-to-the-younguns project, Mormonr:

I'm glad to see the next generation rocking their testimonies in culturally mainstream ways. 

 

[Backroads]

5 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

The B.H Roberts foundation is a pretty interesting bunch of folks.  In a lot of ways, it's the younger generation LDS folks, to whom the us GenXers have passed the apologetic torch. 

Here's another one of their publications from their more culturally-focused online apologetic outreach-to-the-younguns project, Mormonr:

I'm glad to see the next generation rocking their testimonies in culturally mainstream ways. 

 

Loved the original. May need to pick this one up. 😁

[NeuroTypical]

As far as the actual topic goes:  The person who picked the spot for my ward building (then a tiny branch) was a German immigrant who had been in the hitler youth. He remembered watching the Americans cross the bridge into his town.  My father was a WWII vet, who also remembered crossing that bridge into that town.  They didn't meet until years later in Salt Lake.   I grew up on stories from about how happy the German people were after hitler died and the war ended.  My dad personally witnessed how happy they were - moreso than the allied forces in some cases.  

Can you imagine trying to be LDS in a nation run by nazis?  They tell me that culturally it reached a point where a third of the country was deemed the enemy, a third of the country tried to eliminate the enemy, and a third sat back and did nothing.  That was how everyone knew that things had gone too far, but by then it was too late to do anything about it internally.   So there you are, a Mormon.  Must not become the first third, or the second third, but you also are commanded to do good and can't be the third part either.  Just keep your head down and survive.  For poking your head up will get it removed from your body.

[Carborendum]

Interesting quote from the Gestapo papers:

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the doctrine of the Mormons is incompatible with the National Socialist worldview.

I agree with a Nazi.  Hah!

[mordorbund]

2 hours ago, Carborendum said:

I agree with a Nazi.  Hah!

Time to bring back signatures.