In 1939 when Hitler's armies marched into Poland, the LDS missionaries
marched out of Germany and eventually out of continental Europe, leaving
a strong and thriving Church in eastern Germany. Through personal interviews
with East German Saints, this volume documents the moving personal faith
of those Saints who survived World War II and rebuilt Zion during the communist
years.
Read the personal histories of the East German Saints who saw their
country destroyed by war and their church isolated by the Iron Curtain.
Experience their joy at the dedication of the Freiberg Temple in 1985,
the return of missionaries in April 1989, and the fall of the Berlin Wall
in November 1989.
Behind the Iron Curtain brings to life a vital chapter of modern
Church history that cannot be missed.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Bombing of Dresden
"The Dead Need No Water," Edith Schade Krause
"I Saw the Opera House Burning," Erika Hermann
"Let's Follow Dad--He Holds the Priesthood," Dorothea Speth Condie
"It Was the Hunger," Wilfriede Kiessling
Part 2: Rebuilding Zion
"If the Lord Needs Me, I'll Go," Walter Krause
"The First Conference," Walter Krause and Walter Kindt
"Odyssey to Find a Chapel," Elli Polzin
"If God Is for Us, Who Can Be against Us?" Elfriede Pawlowski
"They Shared the Last Crumb," Eberhard Gäbler
"My Mission, 1953-1974," Käthe Würscher
"A Second Mission," Herbert Schreiter
"Twenty-five Years a Branch President in Neubrandenburg," Otto Krakow
"A Dollhouse for a Chapel," Renate Ritter
"All They Have Left Is an Organ and a Window Drape," Paul Schmidt
Part 3: Living with Communists
"All the Promises Have Been Fulfilled," Ilse Kaden and Herbert Kaden
"I Saw the Russian Tanks Coming," Günter Schulze
"Book Burning," Joachim Albrecht, Kurt Nikol, and Marianne Nikol
"The Border Guards Often Confiscated Them," Erich Ortlieb and Marianne Zwirner Ortlieb
"Political Isolation," Erich Ortlieb and Marianne Zwirner Ortlieb
"Church or School?" Wolfgang Zwirner and Karin Zwirner
"Time to Put Out the Lights?" Reiner Schlüter
"The Way Things Were," Hans-Jürgen Schlüter and Ursula Höhle Schlüter
"Those Are Just Little Things," Annelies Höhle and Ursula Höhle Schlüter
"Those Were Hard Times," Käthe Wöhe
"The Gospel and the Government," Erich Dzierzon, Gisela Dzierzon Heller, and Manfred Heller
"We Couldn't Have Church Literature," Peter Menzel and Doris Menzel
"In the Valley of the Naive," Manfred Schwabe and Elke Schwabe
Part 4: A Brighter Day
"A Temple in Our Country," Elke Schulze
"Conversion Stories"
"We Hope They Call Us on a Mission," Cornelia Ortlieb and Elke Schulze