{"id":68149,"date":"2015-04-29T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68149"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:09:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:09:50","slug":"son-of-a-german-nazi-converts-to-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68149","title":{"rendered":"Son of a German Nazi converts to Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/njjewishnews.com\/article\/1658\/nazis-son-now-a-jew-to-speak-at-vanguard#.VUECECFVikp\">Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, was the Christian son of a World War II Nazi tank commander<\/a> &#8211; a third-generation warrior who received Deutschland&#8217;s highest military honor, the Iron Cross, pinned on his uniform by Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, Bernd studied the Holocaust and was repelled by what he learned. His studies resulted in a spiritual journey leading to his conversion to Judaism and the end of his relationship with his father. &#8220;This was, and is, very difficult to deal with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I never saw my father again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpKyB6vrVp8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, MD, was the Christian son of a World War II Nazi tank commander &#8211; a third-generation warrior who received Deutschland&#8217;s highest military honor, the Iron Cross, pinned on his uniform by Adolf Hitler. As a teenager, Bernd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,4272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion","category-nazi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68150,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149\/revisions\/68150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}