UNDER THE SS SHADOW by Traugott Vogel

This book was banned by eBay in 2006 and became the subject of a controversy to which we devoted two issues of South of Tuk (Issues #130 and 131).  The controversy ended five months later when we received a written apology from eBay, but nothing has been done about the hidden censorship which persists on eBay, and elsewhere, even though it is in violation of the United States Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This book is basically an autobiography of Baptist Pastor Traugott.  The first half of the book deals with Traugott’s personal experience of Nazi brainwashing techniques used on German youth.  Membership in the Hitler Jugend was compulsory to all Germans beginning on their 10^th birthday, and meetings were deliberately held on Sundays at the same time as church services, in order to keep young people away from spiritual forces which were opposed to Naziism.  [Mere membership should not be held to stigmatize the few old survivors:  membership was compulsory.  Amongst others, this applies to the current Pope.] The second half of the book outlines Traugott’s experiences as a Baptist pastor dealing with traumatic post-war consequences of Naziism, and then his experiences in America as a co-worker with Billy Graham. 

ITEM AA07  For related books, see Catalog CC.