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Imagine a world where freedom is a distant memory, and the government controls every aspect of your life.
In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic London, Winston Smith lives in a society where independent thought is discouraged, and the totalitarian Party, led by the mysterious Big Brother, exercises total control.
Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. The German Christians, a movement within German Protestantism, integrated Nazi ideology, nationalism, and Christian faith. Marrying religious anti-Judaism to the Nazis racial antisemitism, they aimed to remove everything Jewish from Christianity.
Orwell, George. 1984 (p. 8). Sanage Publishing House. Kindle Edition.
Introduction
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching… Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Many terms used in the novel have entered common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, and memory hole. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His works are characterized by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. George Orwell is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Solberg, Mary M. (2015-03-31T23:58:59.000). A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940 . Fortress Press. Kindle Edition.
Preface
The material from which these translated excerpts were drawn is interesting, sometimes even fascinating, but very little of it could be described as edifying. As the bibliography of German Christian documents at the back of this volume indicates, much more could be translated. Whether even what appears here deserves to be translated and published is of course open to discussion. There is always a danger, when one engages in a project like this one, that one might be providing a platform—or be seen to be providing a platform—for views that are ignorant at the least and utterly repugnant at the worst. Other documents, including those expressing views sharply critical of the views presented here, may well have an equal or even a more urgent claim to be published. I took on this project because I believed that it was important for thes documents to be accessible in English to those who study this period and either cannot access them or do not read German. period that cried out for ethical and religious courage and found very, very little of it. I am also chastened by the sobering realization that, had I lived through that period of history and faced those challenges, I might not have shown much courage either. I have been encouraged in this project by a number of people who know much more about all of this than I do.
Tye, Larry. Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy (p. 1). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
Introduction
Front and center is “Low Blow” Joe McCarthy, one of the most reviled figures in US history. It’s not often that a man’s name becomes an ism, in this case a synonym for reckless accusation, guilt by association, fear-mongering, and political double-dealing. In the early 1950s, the senator from Wisconsin promised America a holy war against a Communist “conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.” While the conspiracy and infamy claims were a stretch, the body count was measurable: a TV broadcaster, a government engineer, current and former US senators, and incalculable others who committed suicide to escape McCarthy and his warriors; hundreds more whose careers and reputations he crushed; and the hundreds of thousands he browbeat into a tongue-tied silence. His targets all learned the futility of taking on a tyrant who recognized no restraints and would do anything— anything— to win. “To those of you who say that you do not like the rough tactics—any farm boy can tell you that there is no dainty way of clubbing the fangs off a rattler or killing a skunk . . . It has been a bare-knuckle job. It will continue as such,” the farm-bred soldier turned senator delighted in telling audiences about his hunt for pinkos and Reds. “I am afraid I will have to blame some of the roughness in fighting the enemy to my training in the Marine Corps. We weren’t taught to wear lace panties and fight with lace hankies.”