By fall, 1939, World War II began in earnest.
Germany surged ahead, optimistic because of her
swift victory in Poland. The frighteningly
diabolical trio of Adolf Eichmann, Reinhard
Heydrich, and Heinrich Himmler was ordered to
find a final solution to the Jewish problem,
and it was generally understood that the final
solution meant total extermination. Rudolf
Ross was put in charge of the genocide at
Auschwitz. Upon his orders, two thousand Jews
would be gassed at one time. As men, women, and
children were shoved together into massive
shower rooms some were stamped on their
chests with a coded number that indicated they
had gold teeth. When they finally realized they
weren't taking a shower, they screamed and
cried for mercy, but their cries fell on deaf
ears. Amused guards watched through peepholes
as they suffered and died. Hideous horror
stories began to trickle out of the various
camps, putting unbearable pressure on European
Jews, who knew that they were all potential
gas-chamber victims.
By the summer of 1940,
the Führer had made himself the master of
western Europe as he invaded Denmark, Norway,
Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France. They
all would fall before the years end. It began
to look as though Italy would enter the war as
an ally of Germany.
Hitler had only to
whisper and ten thousand prisoners would die
that day. Is a similar time coming for
America? If we have to go through this type of
persecution, would you be spiritually prepared?
