When the Nazis Found Christ: God and Repentance at the Nuremberg Trials

The mainstream view is that the National Socialists hated Christianity. Does this hold up to scrutiny however? At Nuremberg two American Chaplains were dispatched to deal with the spiritual needs of the prisoners and so each of the major National Socialists views on the Christian religion were shown clear as day. Who was a Christian? Did the condemned trust in Jesus Christ to save their souls after they they met their end? Did any of the Germans who had fallen away return to the faith? I'll answer all these questions and more inside this video as we cover the religious aspect of the Nuremberg trials from beginning to end.

Chapters:

Intro: 0:00
First Impressions: 2:27
A Race Against Time: 11:22
Family Business: 23:46
Judgement Day: 34:14

[ZoomerHistorian]

The first chapter card is dead air because the audio was copyrighted, sorry!

[TurtleChad]

"If allied soldiers could see their countries now they'd have dropped their weapons and fought with the Germans" David Irving

[robertaustin]

The Nazis were accused of and convicted of the massacre in the Katyn Forest where more than 10, 000 Polish officers and civilians were killed and buried in mass graves.
Years later the Russians admitted to carrying out the massacre.
So much for the credibility of the Nuremberg trials.

[StopListeningToLibertarians]

These facts don't care about Ben Shapiro's feelings

[rorschach]

Don't forget that the Germans were tortured into confessing to things that may or may not have actually transpired during the war.

[Desertduleler_]

The fact that Chaplain Gerecke got hate mail for the rest of his life speaks volumes about those haters.

[iraqiimmigrant]

“800, 000 Iraqi children died during sanctions” - 60 Minutes Interviewer

“I THINK IT WAS WORTH IT” - Madeline Albright, Secretary of State, dual citizen…

[FloydTheBreathless]

The nuremburg trials were the worlds first televised show trial. We fought the wrong enemy

[Barry.Age]

Fun fact: the vast majority of defendants at the trials had their testicles crushed beyond relief. Do with that information what you want

[declanhart]

Beautiful story of redemption posted on Pentecost Sunday. Thank you Zoomer!

[bobdollaz]

They were always more "Godly" than the other side!

[juri]

„I place all my faith in the lamb of God, Jesus, who takes away the sin of the world. Till we meet again, pastor.“
-Joachim von Ribbentrop, minutes before being hanged

[winlanderr]

This was the day when the Germanic world fell.

[gloriadeipatre]

I am 58 years old. I attended St. Bonaventure university in the 1980's.

I met a Franciscan Priest there who became a very close friend on mine and my family. His name was Father David Sweeney, OFM.

Father Sweeney was a Captain and chaplain in the United States Army and was in Germany quite a bit. He used to joke that in Berlin there was a spy on every corner.

He recounted to me how Father O'Connor who was also a Franciscan tended to the Nuremburg prisoners and he had interesting little tidbits about their personalities.

Goering was completely closed off to Father O'Connor. Others were not and a few even were converted to the Catholic faith before their death.

After the conclusion of the trials and the world got back to regular life Father O'Connor came back to America andcwas teaching again. Father Sweeney told me that the US government was always after Father O'Connor to try to see what information he had learned from being with all these top German officers.

Father Sweeney told me that Father O'Connor was teaching at Sienna College when he died and that within a day or two the FBI came and took everything out of his room. (Go figure).

When he told me this it was 1985 and at that time, I believe to the best of recollection that the Franciscan Province was sueing the Federal gvt for the return of Father O'Connor personal property.

I can't remember, sorry, if in those items were notebooks or letters, and I don't have the answer to what the litigation produced.

My dear friend, may God have mercy on his soul, passed away and I never got the outcome. My friend Father David Francis Sweeney knew Father O'Connor and personally discussed things with him. Being an officer, plus a Priest, I'm sure Father O'Connor had really good personality trait information about the prisoners.

I just wanted to pass that on, and I am sorry now at 58 that when I was 19 I didn't have the knowledge or where withal to delve deeper into that opportunity. Now it's gone.

[Antedithulian]

If this doesn't make you emotional, you're not human.

[sunmoonplanets]

Ribbentrop's words always hit me: "I will see you again."
That is such a beautifully blunt confession of faith. There's another life after this one because of Jesus Christ. Let us not forget that.

[steadyeddie]

It was NOT a trail, it was a witch hunt..

[fenrizragnarok]

They were shocked he shook hands with a monster like Hess... The guy who literally flew on a solo peace mission in 1941 to stop the war from escalating and got 40 plus years of imprisonment, humiliation and torture in return.

How do I still get mad about this stuff?

[CrussaderX]

May the Lord have mercy on their souls🙏☦️

[hariman]

1: If you know your history, you'll understand how thorough a curse "The Bolsheviks will hang you too." is, given the history of the Bolsheviks being the enemy of Germany.

2: not mentioned is the physical abuse suffered by the prisoners. Like all but two of them having their testicles crushed.

3: The executioner is an awful, awful person.