Word: ravensburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious illness as a student did Thielicke discover that theology was something more than an intellectual game. After recovering, says he, "I now knew what faith was." In 1940 he was ordained a minister in the Evangelical Church, shortly thereafter became a pastor in the ancient town of Ravensburg. Thielicke's anti-Nazi sermons earned him a stern prohibition against speaking in public. He wrote two books and smuggled them out to Switzerland, where they were published anonymously. Karl Goerdeler, a leader of the abortive July 20 plot against Hitler, engaged him to write part of the planned revolutionary...
...Pile of Corpses. Yvonne was taken to Ravensburg concentration camp. For insubordination, she received 30 lashes and was committed to the care of the Nazis' sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke...
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