Then They Came For Me – Professor Matthew Hockenos – INTRO

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welcome to sparks of history where world history and jewish history meet today we are pleased to host professor matthew akanos presa hakonos is chair of the department of history at skidmore college in new york professor hawkins is the author of a church divided german protestants confront the nazi past and is written extensively on christian jewish relationships anti-semitism nazi germany nazi germany protestantism and today we'll be discussing professor hawkins fascinating page turner then they came for me martin niemoller the pastor who defied the nazis and we'll get right to it a little bit about your background and how you became interested in martin nemour okay so i earned a ba and a phd in history and my focus was always modern

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1. 0:00welcome to sparks of history where world history and jewish history meet today we are pleased…
2. 0:31nazi germany protestantism and today we'll be discussing professor hawkins fascinating page turner then they came…
3. 1:02history and my focus was always modern european history and specifically 20th century german history um…
4. 1:33coming to terms with its complicity in the nazi era between 1945 and 1950 so i…
5. 2:03very central in the efforts to get the church to uh recognize its responsibility is complicity…
6. 2:3392 years old and lived through all these fascinating moments in german history so when i…

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