Author: Reuben Clarence Lang

Dr. Reuben Clarence Lang (January 1, 1925 - July 3, 2021) was a U.S. pastor and historian of German descent. He received his PhD from Kiel University (Germany) in 1966 with a dissertation on the image of Germany in the USA during World War I until 1925. From 1967 to 1971, he taught history at Midland Lutheran College in Fremont, Nebraska, and from 1972 until his retirement in 1987, he taught German at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas.

Wartime German Catholic Leaders and the “Extermination of the Jews”

In West Germany doubting that 6,000,000 Jews were killed, mostly by gassing, by the Germans in World War II can lead to legal complications. Numerous personal cases demonstrate that a reissue of the censorship practices of the Third Reich is still a reality. Doubters become the target of negative publicity and ostracism. Especially hard hit…

Warsaw under German rule

Warschau unter deutscher Herrschaft [Warsaw under German rule] by Friedrich Gollert. Warsaw: Berg Verlag GmbH.,1942, 302 pp. On the occasion of the two years' existence of the General Government (GG), I was commissioned to render an account concerning the District of Warsaw. At that time (1941) I wrote Zwei Jahre Wiederaufbau im Distrikt Warschau (Two…

Imposed German Guilt: The Stuttgart Declaration of 1945

President Ronald Reagan, in preparation for his celebrated visit to the German military cemetery at Bitburg in 1985, termed the alleged collective German guilt for the Second World War “imposed” and “unnecessary.”[1] That President Reagan felt compelled to express himself so clearly demonstrates that the German guilt said to stem from the Second World War…

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