Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Reproach to the Gainsayers.
Doctor Kunwrath faciebat
23 Decembris. Anno 1597. octava vespertina.
Spirit Divine, blest be thy state,
That art in Salt incorporate
And in the Worlds true virgin wombe
A pure Quintessence art becomme.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Gods wondrous eternal power,
Man in this world may discover,
Who wth the greate worlds flesh & blood
Clad itselfe for our Eternall good.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Who earst the whole world didst surround
Now in old Chaos seede art found
Soe art becomme a body small
Susteyning all things naturall.
Lord have mercy upon us.
This is the greate Light of Nature
That giving the world a new Lustre
And shining in ye darksome night
To make us true Children of Light
Lord have mercy upon us.
Thou Spirit of God true God art
Yet in the world a stranger wert
Which led us out from Errors place
And made us heyres of Natures grace.
Lord have mercy upon us.
On Earth he was in meane Consort
Us in great mercy to Comfort
And make us rich in true wisdome
That like new borne Babes we becomme.
Lord have mercy upon us.
All this on us good God bestow
Then Lord shall we they greate workes shew
And wisdomes Babes their voyce shall raise
Singing to thy Eternall praise.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Doctor Kunwrath faciebat
23 Decembris. Anno 1597. octava vespertina.
Spirit Divine, blest be thy state,
That art in Salt incorporate
And in the Worlds true virgin wombe
A pure Quintessence art becomme.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Gods wondrous eternal power,
Man in this world may discover,
Who wth the greate worlds flesh & blood
Clad itselfe for our Eternall good.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Who earst the whole world didst surround
Now in old Chaos seede art found
Soe art becomme a body small
Susteyning all things naturall.
Lord have mercy upon us.
This is the greate Light of Nature
That giving the world a new Lustre
And shining in ye darksome night
To make us true Children of Light
Lord have mercy upon us.
Thou Spirit of God true God art
Yet in the world a stranger wert
Which led us out from Errors place
And made us heyres of Natures grace.
Lord have mercy upon us.
On Earth he was in meane Consort
Us in great mercy to Comfort
And make us rich in true wisdome
That like new borne Babes we becomme.
Lord have mercy upon us.
All this on us good God bestow
Then Lord shall we they greate workes shew
And wisdomes Babes their voyce shall raise
Singing to thy Eternall praise.
Lord have mercy upon us.
"ascending smoke, sacrificial speech acceptable to God.”
“Happy is the one who follows the advice of God.”
“Without the breath of inspiration from God, no one finds the great way.”
--Heinrich Khunrath--
“Happy is the one who follows the advice of God.”
“Without the breath of inspiration from God, no one finds the great way.”
--Heinrich Khunrath--
"Deus Lux Solis, vel Deo Laus Semper" which can be translated as: "God is the light of the sun" or "Praise to God forever" (also, "Praise always to God")
Nature is the daughter of Time
Friday, January 1, 2010
GERMANY: Disturbing Rise of Right-Wing Violence
The Federal Criminal Police Office (or BKA) said in a report released last week that politically and racially motivated crimes by the far right hit a record high of more than 20,000 in 2008. Figures for 2009 won't be released until early next year, but the BKA expects them also to be above normal. 'On average, two to three far-right motivated violent crimes are committed in Germany each day. And there are around three to four anti-Semitic violent crimes each month,' says Jörg Ziercke, the president of the BKA. 'There's a real danger to people's lives because far-right attacks tend to be very spontaneous, brutal and violent.' Right-wing radicals have become increasingly brazen, too, carrying out attacks in public places, such as train stations, bus stops and outside bars and restaurants. In addition to el-Sherbini's murder, Ziercke says there were five politically or racially motivated attempted murders by the far right in 2009.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (or BKA) said in a report released last week that politically and racially motivated crimes by the far right hit a record high of more than 20,000 in 2008. Figures for 2009 won't be released until early next year, but the BKA expects them also to be above normal. 'On average, two to three far-right motivated violent crimes are committed in Germany each day. And there are around three to four anti-Semitic violent crimes each month,' says Jörg Ziercke, the president of the BKA. 'There's a real danger to people's lives because far-right attacks tend to be very spontaneous, brutal and violent.' Right-wing radicals have become increasingly brazen, too, carrying out attacks in public places, such as train stations, bus stops and outside bars and restaurants. In addition to el-Sherbini's murder, Ziercke says there were five politically or racially motivated attempted murders by the far right in 2009.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Forty Eighters
-wiki-
The Forty-Eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe. In Germany, the Forty-Eighters favored unification of the country, a more democratic government, and guarantees of human rights. Disappointed at the failure of the revolution to bring about the reform of the system of government in Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire and sometimes on the government's wanted list because of their involvement in the revolution, they gave up their old lives to try again abroad. Many emigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia after the revolutions failed. Many fought in the American Civil War and Latin American Wars of Independence. They included Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, and others. Many were respected, wealthy, and well-educated; as such, they were not typical migrants. A large number went on to be very successful in their new countries.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
On June 2, 1967, Ohnesorg participated in a protest held near the Deutsche Oper, aimed against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,(see Iranian Revolution) who was attending a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Deutsche Oper that night. It was the first political demonstration Ohnesorg had ever taken part in. The protest turned violent after provocations by the Shah's agents and the police's overreacting. Demonstrators were then dispersed into the side streets. In the confusion in the courtyard of Krumme Strasse 66, Ohnesorg was then shot by plain-clothes police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras. Ohnesorg died before he could be operated on in the hospital. Kurras was cleared of all charges in two separate trials.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld -wiki-
French activists known for engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism. Serge Klarsfeld, a Jewish person, spent the war years in France. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois Brunner, and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died. Young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) organization; his mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France, helped by underground French Resistance after late 1943. Beate was born Beate Künzel, the daughter of a Christian, German-born, regular Wehrmacht soldier. The couple were married in 1963 and made their home in Paris. Their son, Arno Klarsfeld, born 1965, is a human-rights attorney and he has worked with French president Nicholas Sarkozy during his tenure as minister of the interior.
In 1966 Beate was fired from her job at the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (Franco-German Alliance for Youth), simply for denouncing the West German Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, for his involvement in Nazi propaganda during the Third Reich. At that time, several leading West German politicians had Nazi backgrounds which, during the first two decades after the war, had been conveniently forgotten.
In August 1970, Beate was arrested in Warsaw by the Polish authorities and deported for having protested against what she perceived as Polish antisemitism (which was officially known rather as anti-Zionism in the Soviet bloc). This was considered as a direct insult to the Polish socialist state and to Polish nationhood; she was accused of being a German spy trying to cause uproar in the People's Republic of Poland.
In 1971, Serge and Beate tried to abduct Kurt Lischka, a former Gestapo chief, and hand him over to the French authorities (his prosecution in Germany being prevented by legal technicalities resulting from a prior conviction). The Klarsfelds were convicted of felony charges and sentenced to two months in prison in 1974. Due to international protests, the sentence was suspended. This incident, and later activities by the Klarsfelds and by descendants of Lischka's victims, eventually resulted in a revision of the legal situation and, in 1980, in Lischka's felony conviction and sentence.
The Klarsfelds campaigned against former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, elected President of Austria in 1986 amid allegations that he covered up his war time activities as an officer in the Wehrmacht.Beate Klarsfeld was arrested and deported from Syria in 1991 after she traveled to Damascus to publicize Syria's (alleged) harboring of Alois Brunner, who, as commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, was responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Brunner was condemned in absentia in France in 2001 to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
In 1996, they joined the outcry against Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić for alleged war crimes and genocide in the former Yugoslavia.
French activists known for engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism. Serge Klarsfeld, a Jewish person, spent the war years in France. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois Brunner, and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died. Young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) organization; his mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France, helped by underground French Resistance after late 1943. Beate was born Beate Künzel, the daughter of a Christian, German-born, regular Wehrmacht soldier. The couple were married in 1963 and made their home in Paris. Their son, Arno Klarsfeld, born 1965, is a human-rights attorney and he has worked with French president Nicholas Sarkozy during his tenure as minister of the interior.
In 1966 Beate was fired from her job at the Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (Franco-German Alliance for Youth), simply for denouncing the West German Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, for his involvement in Nazi propaganda during the Third Reich. At that time, several leading West German politicians had Nazi backgrounds which, during the first two decades after the war, had been conveniently forgotten.
In August 1970, Beate was arrested in Warsaw by the Polish authorities and deported for having protested against what she perceived as Polish antisemitism (which was officially known rather as anti-Zionism in the Soviet bloc). This was considered as a direct insult to the Polish socialist state and to Polish nationhood; she was accused of being a German spy trying to cause uproar in the People's Republic of Poland.
In 1971, Serge and Beate tried to abduct Kurt Lischka, a former Gestapo chief, and hand him over to the French authorities (his prosecution in Germany being prevented by legal technicalities resulting from a prior conviction). The Klarsfelds were convicted of felony charges and sentenced to two months in prison in 1974. Due to international protests, the sentence was suspended. This incident, and later activities by the Klarsfelds and by descendants of Lischka's victims, eventually resulted in a revision of the legal situation and, in 1980, in Lischka's felony conviction and sentence.
The Klarsfelds campaigned against former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, elected President of Austria in 1986 amid allegations that he covered up his war time activities as an officer in the Wehrmacht.Beate Klarsfeld was arrested and deported from Syria in 1991 after she traveled to Damascus to publicize Syria's (alleged) harboring of Alois Brunner, who, as commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, was responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Brunner was condemned in absentia in France in 2001 to a life sentence for crimes against humanity.
In 1996, they joined the outcry against Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić for alleged war crimes and genocide in the former Yugoslavia.
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