![]() ![]() ![]() We had no choice but participate, except those kids that were Protestant. We knew that, because there was mandatory religion class, where a religion teacher, usually a priest, would teach about religion. Those who were not Catholic were called “die Evangelischen” which translates to our overall term “Protestant.” In a classroom of 30 to 40 students, there might be one or two Protestants, often none. Everyone was Catholic in Bavaria, except a very few. As a child, I could never understand why Christians would hate each other so much that they’d kill each other, year after year after year.Īs a school boy in Bavaria I witnessed almost all my friends and school mates being Catholic. Catholics and Protestants were always murdering each other in violent clashes, shootings and bombings. In the late 1960s, when I was a school boy in Germany, I remember that the evening news, along with what was going on in Vietnam, often covered violence in Northern Ireland. ![]()
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