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Agent of Grace - HITLER'S 'FINAL SOLUTION'
Within a year after Bonhoeffer and his colleagues started the Confessing Church, the Nazis were no longer content to merely humiliate Jews. Why merely humiliate when one has the power to do more? In 1935, the Third Reich did much more. The government passed race laws that specifically targeted Jews...
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Agent of Grace - HITLER'S HORRORS WORSEN
Hitler charged Heinrich Himmler with carrying out the "Final Solution" - the Nazis' plan to rid Germany of all Jews and other political undesirables. A master of terror, Himmler was more than adept at carrying out his assignment. The "Final Solution," in part, included concentration camps that pract...
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Agent of Grace - BONHOEFFER'S LEGACY
Years after Bonhoeffer's death, people still recall the courage of a Christian pastor who was willing to actively resist the evils of the Third Reich. Decades after he wrote his last words, Bonhoeffer's books still give encouragement to those trying to make sense of their lives. In fact, his greate...
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Agent of Grace - STALKING A MADMAN
With their increasing "legal" authority, Nazis began direct attacks against Jews on Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass." Engineered by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's troops began a virulent rampage against Jewish businesses and synagogues, on the evening of November 9, 1938, and continuing into th...
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Agent of Grace - USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES
A "primary source" is the best place to get first-hand information. A person who experiences an event, and gives an account of it, is a source of primary information. Maps, photographs, drawings, videotapes, diaries, letters, manuscripts and other similar items can be primary sources. Someone who i...
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Alamo, The - DAWN AT THE ALAMO
At the start of his Alamo siege, Santa Anna ordered the red flag of 'no quarter' to be flown from the bell tower of San Fernando Church. His objective, of course, was to intimidate the men inside the fort. Travis had desperately sought reinforcements. Davy Crockett, a frontiersman and former Tennes...
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Alamo, The - REVOLUTION IN TEXAS
At the time of his arrest, Austin had been a strong supporter of Texas as a separate state within Mexico. He had sworn a loyalty oath to Mexico and meant to keep it. Eighteen months in prison, however, helped to change his mind. With their leader under Santa Anna's control, Texians (who feared for ...
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Alamo, The - ANGLOS COLONIZE MEXICO
Ever since Montezuma II superstitiously believed that invading Spainards were descendants of the god Quetzalcoatl, leading to the defeat of the Aztec Empire by Hernando Cortez in 1521, Spain had controlled Mexico. Exactly 300 years later, an American - Stephen Austin - sought, and received, permissi...
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Alamo, The - THE ALAMO
Franciscan missionaries chose a site west of the San Antonio River to establish Mission San Antonio de Valero. Moved twice, the mission's final location (then in the town of Bejar now known as the city of San Antonio) was established in 1724. A church (today the best-known "face" of the Alamo) was ...
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Alamo, The - TENSIONS IN TEXAS
Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's president at the time, freed all slaves on September 15, 1829, although Texians obtained an exemption from the national emancipation law. Guerrero's unpopular decree was never put into operation, and he ended up losing his job and his life. As Anglos poured into the Texas...
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