Theologian, Martin Rumscheidt talks about his new, soon to be published essay about Nazi complicity in his family during WWII episode artwork

EPISODE · Apr 19, 2021 · 48 MIN

Theologian, Martin Rumscheidt talks about his new, soon to be published essay about Nazi complicity in his family during WWII

from Joe Public Speaking · host Tom Jackson

In "Honoring Father and Mother: An Impossible Possibility?", Martin Rumscheidt discusses his lifetime struggle with the fact that his father, as a high ranking employee of IG Farben during WWII, was complicit with Nazi atrocities. How does one heed the ideal of honoring one's father and mother while knowing that through direct involvement, or through silence, one's parents were complicit with an atrocity? 

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