#miltonmayer — Public Fediverse posts

Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless

Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This

#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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Kristin Du Mez, author of the acclaimed Jesus and John Wayne, is back in the classroom teaching a course entitled "Reading for Resistance." She shares her list of books she's use in the course:

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/reading-for-resistance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

#book #TheyThoughtTheyWereFree : The Germans 1933-45 by #MiltonMayer

@BrynnTannehill74

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...mass to send a country spinning into horror.

When [journalist, educator, and author] #MiltonMayer visited #Germany in the early 1950s to interview former low-level members of the #Nazi party, he concluded that 👉perhaps only a million out of 70 million #Germans were “Fanatiker” (fanatics or true believers)👈—the rest were just along for...