While I am not a Catholic, this is a thoroughly important interview: Your husband’s book My Battle Against Hitler has recently been released in English. How did your husband catch on to Hitler so early? My husband’s ardent love for truth is what allowed him to perceive the poison of the Nazi philosophy so quickly. When truth was violated, it registered clearly to someone who had such an appreciation for it. However, the key may not have been the immediacy of recognition, because many other people did not like Hitler’s philosophy from the time it became known. What distinguished my husband was that he went to the trouble of speaking out against Hitler’s atheistic, brutal philosophy that obliterated the individual and deified the state. There were millions of Germans who did not agree with Nazism but who, nonetheless, offered no resistance to it. They kept a low profile in order to avoid possible repercussions in their personal and professional lives. The problem with this strategy can be seen in the abominable results that took place in the 1930s and ’40s. Physical courage — something you find on athletic fields, for example — is very common, but moral courage is not. It is not easy to stand up for what is right when that might mean losing one’s job, one’s family or even one’s life. It is far easier to keep quiet and let things slide. My husband, by contrast, was a morally courageous man. I had the privilege of meeting many good Catholics before making the acquaintance of my husband, but I don’t think I had met a hero before meeting him. My husband was, by the grace of God, a man with heroic dedication to truth, goodness and beauty. That is a rare grace. Read more: ncregister/daily-news/alice-von-hildebrand-on-fleeting-fads-and-eternal-truth/#ixzz3NRcPv1QY
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:00:48 +0000
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