Sachenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany. A memory over our brother who was executed because Himmler wanted to make an example what will happen if you do not go out in war! ?

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Sachenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany.

A memory over our brother who was executed because Himmler wanted to make an example what will happen if you do not go out in war!

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[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

August Dickmann was a  true "war hero" ... just as important to Civilization as Sgt. York in WWI, and Audie Murphy in WWII ... and infinitely more important to God.

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." - William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar.

[Guest Kurt]

He is the first, the Nazis executed for refusing military service.

August Dickmann was murdered 75 years ago on the basis of a decree that henceforth allowed executions without judgement.

His shooting has been seared into the memory of concentration camp prisoners. Before all eyes and speaker also transferred to the farthest corner of the concentration camp.

August Dickmann was publicly executed on September 15, 1939 in Sachsenhausen near Berlin.

The first conscientious objector of World War II. Two weeks before Adolf Hitler’s military had invaded Poland and thus unleashed the second global war in world history.

Dickmann was killed 75 years ago on the parade ground in the center of the concentration camps - a few meters from its being beaten with detainees brother Heinrich. “What happened to him, so never happen again,” the director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, Günter Morsch says. Subsequent executions conducted by the Nazis in the execution trench.

Secret Circular enabled process without executions
Today, a memorial commemorates the murder of 29-year-old who refused to do military service as a Jehovah’s Witness religious reasons. Among all those who resisted the Nazi dictatorship, he is one of the largely unknown. That could be because its use appeared historically insignificant. However, he has paid for it with his life, as most of the approximately 280 conscientious objectors in Hitler’s Reich. The vast majority of them were religiously motivated: From more than 250 Jehovah’s Witnesses, some Adventists, Catholics and Protestants as well as a handful of politically Motivated reported the publication “History of conscientious objection”.
Instead judicial death sentences now was HimmlerÂ’s order
Basis of the first execution - the execution Dickmann - was a secret circular of September 3. He allowed procedural loose executions. “That was the last step in establishing an independent judiciary jurisdiction of the police,” said memorials Director Morsch. In place of judicial death sentences which entered the SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler command.
source (german text)

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I have introduced MANY a Bible discussion about "War Heros" with men who know who Sgt. York, and Audie Murphy were, by putting August Dickmann's name in the middle, which of course they have never heard of.

If you can give the story of all three men, it gives you INCREDIBLE credibility in a conversation, and it's not "preachy".

As we learned in the Mid-week meeting, this is VERY important.

But just as important ... is "he who teaches ... learns."