Talk:Ethnic Mennonite

Potential merger

This article may be an appropriate candidate for a merger with Mennonite. --RobertsBiology (talk) 19:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Comments from an anon

The history of the 'ethnic' Mennonites is a lie. 'Ethnic' Mennonite was a North American social construct - not a reality. There is no such thing as an ethnic Mennonite, just ethnic Germans who evaded their responsibility for the part they played in World War 2.

https://themennonite.org/daily-news/scholars-address-nazi-influence-on-mennonites/ "Mennonite Participation in Nazi Leadership Mennonites served in a wide variety of positions under the Third Reich, including mayors, governors, guards, police, and bureaucratic staff that oversaw the killing of Jews. For example, Mennonites served as guards for the Stutthof concentration camp. One was SS-Unterscharführer Kurt Janzen, who served as Blockführer and leader of the labor detachment. The other, Heinz Löwen, was one of the few guards actually tried after the war. Another likely Mennonite named Schröder was one of 20 SS guards notorious for their brutal treatment of 1,000 Jewish women forced to build dykes and were killed when they tired. (See Rempel 2012)" https://lisaschirch.wordpress.com/2018/ ... a-summary/

"….in fact, the men pictured here belonged to Waffen-SS cavalry units composed mostly of Mennonites". "The photo was taken at a rally where Mennonite women and children performed for the visiting head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler". https://anabaptisthistorians.org/2018/0 ... holocaust/

"Jews out, Germans in Neufeldt described Nazi collaboration by the people of Deutsch Wymyschle, Poland, a mostly Mennonite town of 250 to 400 people, neighbor to the town of Gabin, with a population of 5,700, about half of them Jews. After the Nazi invasion of Sept. 1, 1939, Jews were rounded up and their property confiscated. Mennonites from Deutsch Wy-mysch¬le took advantage of the Nazi desire to move the Jews out and the Germans in. They accepted the invitation to claim houses and businesses confiscated from the Jews. Among them were Neu¬feldt’s grandparents, Peter and Frieda Ratzlaff." http://mennoworld.org/2018/03/19/news/s ... holocaust/

"To Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Berlin: The Conference of East and West Prussian Mennonites, assembled today in Tiegenhagen, Free State of Danzig, feels deep gratitude for the powerful revival that God has given our nation through your energy, and promises joyful cooperation in the upbuilding of our Fatherland through the power of the Gospel, faithful to the motto of our forefathers: No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ.”[6] (Emphasis and italics mine.) I’m sure Hitler didn’t take time to answer every telegram that he received, but this one he replied to personally: For your loyalty and your readiness to cooperate in the upbuilding of the German nation, expressed in your letter to me, I express my sincere thanks. —Adolf Hitler" http://www.ephrataministries.org/remnan ... -nazis.a5w

"MCC made multiple official reports claiming they were pacifists who didn’t aid the military or the National Socialist Party. “This was false,” Goossen said. “Virtually all Mennonite males fought in Nazi regiments, whether they volunteered or were forced.” https://themennonite.org/daily-news/sch ... Mennonites/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.70.119.115 (talk) 04:37, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

You need to do two things: stop jumping IP addresses and stop quoting long passages of copyrighted text. Your sources have to be WP:BALANCEd with the vast majority of scholarly commentary. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:43, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

You need to do two things: Understand that quoted material is just that - quotes. Also, you need to come to terms with the fact that there is no such thing as ethnic Mennonite, and my comments are not part of the article. Perhaps you think that the quotes I have given were written by unscholarly people? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.70.119.115 (talk) 06:11, 12 July 2018 (UTC) https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/us-deports-ex-nazi-guard-95-to-germany-after-long-wait/ar-BBMfNDy?ocid=spartandhp All Mennonites who served the Nazi government need to be deported as well.