Henry Gerecke – Chaplain to Nazi war criminals

From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers www.epbooks.org. Available in South Africafrom www.christianbooks.co.za. Visiting condemned men in their cells was nothing new to Henry Gerecke. Much of his early career was devoted to working in prisons. However, the […]

Werner Simonson – German judge and Anglican minister

From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers http://www.epbooks.org/ Available in South Africa from http://www.christianbooks.co.za/ It was October 1914. The First World War had just started. On the western front French and German armies were already locked in […]

Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner – Holocaust Survivor

From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers http://www.epbooks.org/ Available in South Africa from http://www.christianbooks.co.za/ Moving quickly, fourteen-year-old Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner, known as Hansie to family and friends, drew back the curtains of her bedroom window. Aroused early […]

Paul Schneider – German opponent of Hitler

From WAR AND GRACE – Short biographies from the World Wars, by Don Stephens, published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, England Reproduced by permission of the publishers http://www.epbooks.org/ Available in South Africa from http://www.christianbooks.co.za/. Throughout 1915 the First World War raged in both western and eastern Europe. In the German onslaught in the east against Russia, […]