Is it likely that your travels will take you to Germany one day? If so, I counsel you to devote a few moments in prayer at a place called Ploetzensee, near Berlin. I went there a year ago. It’s where many of those who resisted Hitler’s tyranny were put to death – of all religious persuasions and of none. Ploetzensee is the nearest place to Calvary I’ve yet been, and before next Easter I’ll be writing a short meditative piece about one of the 2891 souls who died there.
If there’s any positive about Ploetzensee and other places like it, it’s that after the last World War the Germans decided that in the task of rebuilding their nation, the death penalty would have no place whatsoever.
|’m praying for you.
Nigel
Portsmouth
UK
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Dear Sister Helen,
Is it likely that your travels will take you to Germany one day? If so, I counsel you to devote a few moments in prayer at a place called Ploetzensee, near Berlin. I went there a year ago. It’s where many of those who resisted Hitler’s tyranny were put to death – of all religious persuasions and of none. Ploetzensee is the nearest place to Calvary I’ve yet been, and before next Easter I’ll be writing a short meditative piece about one of the 2891 souls who died there.
If there’s any positive about Ploetzensee and other places like it, it’s that after the last World War the Germans decided that in the task of rebuilding their nation, the death penalty would have no place whatsoever.
|’m praying for you.
Nigel
Portsmouth
UK