Sibylle Niemoller Speaks

Sibylle Niemoller, the widow to Martin Niemoller who resisted Adolf Hitler directly in World War II and eventually became his "personal prisoner" in a concentration camp by 1945, came to talk to Dickinson students on April 25th, 1988. She spoke of her experiences  and her parents experiences in the resistance movement of Hitler: her parents were members of the "von Stauffenberg group" which unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Hitler in the summer of 1944 as well as belonged to a group that helped hide 40 to 60 Jews in their homes in Berlin during the war. Mrs. Niemoller also talked about her husbands acts of resistance. The title of her talk at Dickinson was "Christian Resistance to the Nazi State." Mrs. Niemoller also talked to Professor Booth's Religious 308 course while she was at Dickinson.