APPENDICES….Some voices calling for repentance… a call to the churches of Europe : Repent !

      BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL OF HISTORY.

    “ What have you done to us, you freedom-loving peoples, guardians of justice, defenders of the high principles of democracy and of the brotherhood of man ? What have you allowed to be perpetrated against a defenceless people while you stood aside and let it bleed to death,  without offering help or succour, without calling on the fiends to stop, in the language of retribution which alone they would understand. Why do profane our pain and wrath with empty expressions of sympathy which ring like mockery in the ears of millions of the damned in the torture house of Nazi Europe ? Why have you not even supplied arms to our ghetto rebels , as you have done for the partisans and underground fighters of other nations ? Why did you not establish contacts with them, as have done in the case of the partisans in Greece and Yugoslavia  and the underground movements elsewhere ? If, instead of Jews, thousands of  English,American or Rusian women, children,and aged had been tortured every day, burnt to death, asphyxiated in gas chambers – would you have acted in the same way ?”

          Ben Gurion, part of an article in the Zionist Review., 22nd. September, 1944.

 

           “Christianity in Germany bears a greater responsibility before God than the National Socialists, the S.S. and the Gestapo. We ought to have recognised the Lord Jesus in the brother who suffered and was persecuted despite his being a Communist or a Jew.”

       Pastor Martin Niemoller, speaking in Zurich, March, 1946.

 

    “ I must make heard the indignant protest of the Christian conscience and I proclaim that all men, Aryan or non-Aryan, are brothers, because they are created by the same God,,,, the current anti-Semitic measures are in contempt of human dignity, a violation of the most sacred rights of the individual and the family.”

    Bishop Pierre- Marie Theas, speaking of the deportation of French Jews, September, 1942.

       “Guilt lies with the Nazis….But  can we escape blame if, having it in our power to do smething to save the victims, we fail to take the necessary action, and take it swiftly ? …if the British and American governments were determined to achieve a programme of rescue in some way commensurate with the vastness of need , they could do it. “

     Bishop George Bell, bishop of Chichester,speaking on 18th. May, 1943.