With everyone talking about the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my mind went, as it often does when thinking about the Nazi extermination camps, to my friend, the Atlanta folk artist Ned Cartledge. Cartledge, as I may have mentioned here before, saw the horrors of the Nazis firsthand toward the end of the […]
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My friend, Ned Cartledge, on the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1945, 82nd Airborne, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, Atlanta, Auschwitz, cesspool, concentration camps, Dwight D. Eisenhower, folk art, Gardelegen, Gardelegen massacre, genocide, Germany, holocaust, holocaust denial, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Vonnegut, Lorrie Mell, Ludwigslust, Nazi, Ned Cartledge, Neuengamme, never forget, propaganda, racism, scapegoats, starvation, torture, Unitarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war, war crimes, World War II 7 Comments
“Truth crushed to earth will rise again”
I’m reminded today of something that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the February 8, 1958 issue of the Baptist magazine Missions. “Those of us who call the name of Jesus Christ find something in the center of our faith which forever reminds us that God is on the side of truth and justice,” Dr. […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Archie Byron, Atlanta, Brett Kavanaugh, Buttermilk Bottom, Caesar, civil rights, concentration camps, Donald Trump, evil, Jesus Christ, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, moral arc, Nazi, Ned Cartlidge, nonviolence, Theodore Parker, truth, William Cullen Bryant 71 Comments