Articles for the Community News

By cbmiller , 21 February 2012

Community News, 09/28/2004

In case you have not seen the film Amadeus here is the synopsis. The time is the second half of the 18th  century; the place: Salzburg and Vienna. The main characters are Salieri and Mozart. Salieri is the honored and  well compensated court composer to Joseph II. Mozart is the independent genius always desperate for money. What is the theme? ENVY! Salieri has enough musical talent to recognize the musical genius in Mozart. He can not cope with his inferiority in comparison to Mozart’s superiority.

By cbmiller , 28 February 2012

German Guilt

To Community News:  9/9/05
German guilt
 

By cbmiller , 21 February 2012

On Christianity and the Nazis

Community News:  Christianity and the Nazis

There is the lie, the big lie, and the whopper. In my hand is the booklet “Handbook for Catholics.” The author is Mary Kathleen Glavich, S.N.D; the publisher, Loyola Press. The chapter “Journey of the Church  Through Time” contains  the following entries:

“1917 – A Communist Revolution occurs in Russia. An atheistic government restricts religious freedom.

 1933 - The Nazi government persecutes Christians and Jews in Europe.”

By cbmiller , 28 February 2012

On Communist takeover in Mering

My grandfather was born, made his living and died in Mering, a smallish community between Augsburg and Munich. He was am idealist who lived and breathed politics. In  January 1919 (the population of Mering at that time was 2800) he became a founding member of the Sozialdemokratischer Verein Mering und Umgebung  (SPD) On my last visit to Germany in l996, my uncle took me to SPD Verein where a Mr. Hanus gave me the chronicle  of the party from 1917 to l933.

By cbmiller , 28 February 2012

The Funhouse Mirror

To: Community News  (8/8/05) 

The Jews controlling the public opinion shaping businesses use this control like a funhouse mirror which they put in front of  the Nazi period. When we look into that mirror we only see a grotesque reflection of what that period was really like. People therefore are reacting not to reality, but to the hideous distortions which they see in that mirror.