Rising Hegemon
MALVEAUX: Hundreds of people in Cologne, Germany, have been watching this story unfold with special interest, because they are members of Jones' former church.
Using CNN's global resources, we found some of them willing to speak about their disillusionment, what ultimately led Jones to leave them. It is a compelling part of the story.
And they shared it with CNN's Phil Black. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 20 years, Heinz and Elka Koop followed their pastor, Terry Jones. For 19 of those years, they trusted his every word.
HEINZ KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: He was a charismatic leader. I think he was -- the preference was very strong for us.
BLACK: Jones' church, the Christian Community of Cologne, became the focus of their lives. Jones insisted on it, borrowing an infamous Nazi motto.
H. KOOP: And we worked the whole week, also Sunday and Saturday.
BLACK (on camera): For the church?
ELKA KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: Yes.
H. KOOP: For the church, yes.
E. KOOP: Work made free.
BLACK: Is that what he said?
E. KOOP: Yes.
BLACK: Work makes you free?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
In German, of course, this translates into "Arbeit Macht Frei", if that sounds familiar to you, it should, you can see the phrase on the gates of Auschwitz.
5 comments:
Was Terry one of the motherfuckers stole that sign last year?
Small tidbit: Apparently the Rev. Jones and the lizard King, uncle Rusty Limbaugh, both are from Cape Girardeau, MO and even went to high school together. Now they both live in Florida and are racist, anti-semitic, hate-mongering, Bible-thumping, attention-seeking, lying whores.
Who'd a thunk. This is truly a right-wingnut fairy tail.
the gnews must now destroy him.
pansypoo
a much abused little sound bite..work makes us free. It goes back to the great german poet Goethe, and is a worthwhile maxim.
Sad that Hitler and Jones have so cheapened it.
vox
True, Vox, but once a phrase is uttered in a certain context there's no going back. For instance, I'll bet before the Nazis the term "Final Solution" was perfectly respectable, and if you seriously use "Mission Accomplished" today people will think you're a bozo.
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