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Johannes Flintrop
Johannes Flintrop (May 23, 1904 – August 28, 1943) was a prominent Roman Catholic critic of the Nazi Party who died in the Dachau concentration camp. Biography Flintrop was born in Barmen (Wuppertal) to devout working class parents. After his theological studies at the University of Münster, he was ordained a Pastor in Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ... in 1927. At the age of 23, he initially served the congregation Heart of Jesus in Cologne Mülheim, before becoming a vicar general to the congregation of St. Lambert at Mettmann in 1933. In 1941, he admitted to youth of the Catholic Kolping workers society that the war had long not been won, and that "it is likely that we (German troops) too committed war atrocities" in the Soviet Union. For this he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolperstein Johannes Flintrop Mettmann
A (; plural ; literally 'stumbling stone', metaphorically a 'stumbling block') is a sett-size, concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate individuals at exactly the last place of residency—or, sometimes, work—which was freely chosen by the person before they fell victim to Nazi terror, forced euthanasia, eugenics, deportation to a concentration or extermination camp, or escaped persecution by emigration or suicide. , 75,000 have been laid, making the project the world's largest decentralized memorial. The majority of commemorate Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Others have been placed for Sinti and Romani people (then also called "gypsies"), Poles, homosexuals, the physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, members of the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
