Move to Tegel Prison On September 27, 1944, Alfred Delp and several of his companions, after standing for hours, were hustled into a prison vehicle, and driven from the Gestapo prison, Moabit, to Tegel Prison in north Berlin. Tegel was a prison for criminals. It was...
[caption id="attachment_505" align="alignleft" width="300"] The schloss, or main house of the Kreisau estate. The estate now houses the Krsysowa Foundation for European Understanding.[/caption] The loosely knit, so-called “Kreisau” group was named after the estate in Silesia (now part of Poland) of the same name, which belonged...
Alfred Delp: the Moabit Prison on the Lehrterstrasse In a letter to his secretary, Luise Oestreicher, Alfred Delp wrote that around August 15, he “was nearly in despair. I was brought back to the prison late in the evening, badly beaten. [caption id="attachment_485" align="alignleft" width="225"] Moabit Prison...
Alfred Delp SJ: 70 years after his arrest, trial and death in Nazi Germany On this day, September 15, in 1944, Alfred Delp turned 37. He was a Jesuit priest who had been arrested six weeks earlier on suspicion of treason against Germany’s Third Reich. He...
A CBC commentator referred to today's 50th anniversary of the "infamous" march on Washington. Surely that march is famous, not infamous. "Infamous" refers to an event or an action that is considered evil or monstrous. Thus freedom marches become famous, and the segregation laws of the...
When the English novelist Evelyn Waugh visited the United States in the late 1940s, a young journalist asked him what impressed him most in America. His answer: the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Finding that his interviewer, whom he identified only as “the wretched...
In one of the most recent episodes of the popular British series, "Foyle's War", Foyle asks, "May I speak to whomever is in charge here?" "Whomever" should be "whoever" in this sentence. The reason for this is that "whoever is in charge here" is a subordinate...
An article in a recent New Yorker contains the following sentence: "A range of other provisions were also suggested." In the above sentence, range is the subject. Because range is a singular noun, the verb should be was. So the sentence should read as follows: "A range of other provisions...
If you aren’t interested in something–say, science fiction movies…. Are you disinterested in science fiction movies or uninterested in science fiction movies? If you aren’t interested in science fiction movies, you are uninterested in them. If you are disinterested, this means that you are neutral on a particular...
Here is a clear guide to the writing of titles. When are italics used, and when are quotation marks used? http://homeworktips.about.com/od/mlastyle/a/titles.htm ...