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Articles by Ben Goossen
Hitler’s Mennonite Voters
Ben Goossen In May 1933, Mennonites delivered Adolf Hitler the only country-wide majority he achieved in an open election. Four months after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany at the head of a short-lived coalition with another party, the Nazis won an outright majority during elections in a nearby microstate known as the Free City of Danzig. Located in what is today northern Poland, Danzig had a substantial Mennonite population.
The Pacifist Roots of an American Nazi
…we need your help. Confronting the many challenges of COVID-19—from the medical to the economic, the social to the political—demands all the moral and deliberative clarity we can muster. In Thinking in a Pandemic, we’ve organized the latest arguments from doctors and epidemiologists, philosophers and economists, legal scholars and historians, activists and citizens, as they think not just through this moment but beyond it.
The Pacificist Roots of an American Nazi
Children parade for Heinrich Himmler in the Mennonite settlement of Molotschna in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, 1942. Image: Courtesy of the Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Alber Photograph Collection 151-17. Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity. In 1998 white supremacists assembled in Toronto to hear Ingrid Rimland, a doyenne of neo-Nazism.
The Pacifist Roots of an American Nazi
Children parade for Heinrich Himmler in the Mennonite settlement of Molotschna in Nazi-occupied Ukraine, 1942. Image: Courtesy of the Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Alber Photograph Collection 151-17. Ingrid Rimland was a pioneering voice of the neo-Nazi Internet. She was also raised Mennonite, a peaceful religion with a long history of celebrating white “ethnic” identity. In 1998 white supremacists assembled in Toronto to hear Ingrid Rimland, a doyenne of neo-Nazism.
Colonialism – Anabaptist Historians
Every Mennonite in the small town of Goessel, Kansas knows the date 1874. It is emblazoned on the “Turkey Red Wheat Palace,” erected on the centennial of Mennonites’ migration to the Great Plains from Imperial Russia. Having spent the first years of my life in Goessel, I happen to take 1874 as a historical benchmark. When I recently was back in the area to give a talk on religion and race, I did some reading on the Kaw (or Kanza) people, for whom my home state is named.
Mennonites seek to come to terms with Nazi collaboration
FILADELFIA, Paraguay (RNS) Violence tore through this close-knit, traditionally pacifist community on the night of March 11, 1944. All the more remarkable, its perpetrators and victims were all Mennonites. And they all belonged to rival Nazi factions. Since the end of the Second World War, Mennonite-Nazi collaboration has largely been ignored, forgotten or intentionally repressed. In Paraguay, members of Mennonite congregations were forbidden from discussing the matter.
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