Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann (born April 8, 1926) is a Christian theologian.

The War

He took his entrance exam to proceed with his education, but went to war instead as an Air Force auxiliary in the German army. "The 'iron rations' in the way of reading matter which I took with me into the miseries of war were Goethe's poems and the works of Nietzsche."¹ He was actually drafted into military service in 1944, when he became a soldier in the German army. Ordered to the Reichswald, a Belgian forest at the front lines, he surrendered in 1945 in the dark to the first British soldier he met. For the next few years (1945-48), he was confined as a prisoner of war and moved from camp to camp.

Related Topics:
Goethe - Nietzsche - Reichswald - 1945 - Prisoner of war

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