{"id":4353,"date":"2022-07-04T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:27","slug":"classroom-questions-robert-wagemann-question-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/oral-history-interviews\/classroom-questions-robert-wagemann-question-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom questions: Robert Wagemann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">QUESTION #1:<br><strong>DID YOU OR YOUR FAMILY HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR FAITH AND WHETHER THERE WAS A GOD?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Robert-Wagemann-jeune.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4358\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After seeing the hypocrisy of the mainstream religions (the Catholic Church making a Concordat with the Hitler regime and the Protestants\u2019 clergy encouraging the people to vote for It), my parents\u2019 study of the Bible and their Bible-trained conscience forbade them to get involved with any facet of this system. They never had second thoughts about their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother was especially instrumental at instilling in me Bible principles, like not looking for humans to bring about salvation. Only God could do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, I did not do the Hitler salute (Heil Hitler) which means when literally translated that salvation would come from Hitler. Nor did I participate in any youth organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not doubt God\u2019s existence. Later in my life looking back, I believe that on many occasions God was helping us to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Robert-Wagemann.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Robert-Wagemann.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Robert-Wagemann-196x234.jpeg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION #1:DID YOU OR YOUR FAMILY HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT YOUR FAITH AND WHETHER THERE WAS A GOD? After seeing the hypocrisy of the mainstream religions (the Catholic Church making a Concordat with the Hitler regime and the Protestants\u2019 clergy encouraging the people to vote for It), my parents\u2019 study of the Bible and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oral-history-interviews","category-oral-history-interviews-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11661,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/11661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}