Kurt Gerstein ( August 11, 1905 – July 25, 1945 ) was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS.

SS Lt. Kurt Gerstein, who worked in the SS medical service, was ordered to deliver a shipment of Zyklon B to Bełżec.

She has explained that the material has special personal meaning for her as her father, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin during World War II, had attempted unsuccessfully during the war to spread information that he had received from SS officer Kurt Gerstein about the Nazi death camps.

A semi-fictional movie about his emotional search for Christian values and ultimate decision to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust through informing the Catholic Church, Amen., was released in 2002, starring Ulrich Tukur as Kurt Gerstein and directed by Costa-Gavras.

The central character is Kurt Gerstein ( Ulrich Tukur ), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designing programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin.

The Gerstein Report was written by Kurt Gerstein, an Obersturmführer ( First Lieutenant ) of the Waffen-SS in 1945 who rose to become the Head of Technical Disinfection Services of the SS.

Outraged by the euthanasia program, he decided to join the Waffen SS “ to look into the matter of these ovens and chambers in order to learn what happened there .” Because of his technical education, Gerstein was placed in the Waffen-SS technical disinfection services where he rose quickly to become its head.

* Kurt Gerstein: A German Spy in the SS

* Kurt Gerstein, Conscience-Stricken SS Officer

In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the Gerstein Report covering his experience of the Holocaust.

Gerstein also added grossly exaggerated claims about matters to which he was not an eyewitness, such as that a total of 25 million Jews and others were gassed.

The final part of the report describes Gerstein ’ s attempts to circulate his eyewitness testimony.

Gerstein also added grossly exaggerated claims about matters to which he was not an eyewitness, such as that a total of 25 million Jews and others were gassed.

After his surrender, in April 1945, Gerstein was to write a report about his experiences with respect to the extermination camps, at first in French, followed by two German versions in May 1945.

On April 27, 2009, animation historian David Gerstein posted a report on his blog that he finally revealed the true ending to this cartoon: the rabbits attack the hunter in a cartoon smoke cloud and then run away.

As state comptroller, Hevesi faced a conflict of interest allegation in relation to a private capital fund named " Markstone ", according to a report in the New York Sun ( Hevesi's Advice Stirs Questions On the Coast, Gerstein, J., May 11, 2006 ).

* Winning short film about the Gerstein Report

Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII ( Marcel Iureş ) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy.

* Winning short film about the Gerstein Report

The issue was ultimately settled by the U. S. Supreme Court's 1964 decision in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein.

The U. S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein, citing Jacobellis v. Ohio ( which was decided the same day in 1964 ), overruled the state court findings of obscenity and declared the book a work of literature ; it was one of the notable events in what has come to be known as the sexual revolution.

The unedited version of the play is over five hours long and includes the true story of Kurt Gerstein.

The Deputy was made into a film Amen by Costa Gavras in 2002, which focused more on the story of Kurt Gerstein.

David Gerstein ( co-editor of the series ) notes there are enough Gottfredson daily strips to make thirteen volumes but how many are published depends on sales.

F. Lee Bailey and Florida state prosecutor Richard Gerstein were the directors of CenTrust Federal Savings Bank, a failed satellite of BCCI ; this would eventually lead to Bailey's disbarment.

Animation historian David Gerstein has noted that although the characters will appear in different settings and sometimes even change their names ( Mickey's Christmas Carol ), the characters are still themselves and behave in a way consistent with their natures.

* " Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental " by Marc S. Gerstein, Michael Ellsberg, ( Foreword by ) Daniel Ellsberg, June 2008 – Publisher: Sterling Publishing

Physicist " Dr Carl Gerstein " ( played by Richard Marner ) claimed to have proposed in 1957 that there were three alternatives to this problem.

In a 1989 interview, actor Richard Marner ( Dr Carl Gerstein ) said he didn't rehearse his lines to make the delivery appear as natural as possible.

The book leads to one of many obscenity trials ( Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein ) that tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s.

Among them are Michael Barrier, Jerry Beck, Colin and Timothy Cowles, Donald Crafton, David Gerstein, Milt Gray, Mark Kausler, Leonard Maltin, and Charles Solomon.

His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

Protestant hymns written mostly by New England preachers became a feature of camp meetings held among devout Christians across the South.

Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.

The culture war gave secularists and socialists an opportunity to attack all religions, an outcome that distressed the Protestants, including Bismarck, who was a devout pietistic Protestant.

Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, was alarmed that secularists and socialists were using the Kulturkampf to attack all religion.

However, several Protestant princes feared the Emperor, a devout Catholic, intended to keep Jülich-Cleves-Berg for himself to prevent the United Duchies falling into Protestant hands.

Meanwhile, Edward was brought up a strict and devout Protestant by numerous tutors, including Bishop Richard Cox, John Belmain, and Sir John Cheke.

With his brother's death in November 1592, during the era which marked the start of the final chapter ( dated 1648 by some ) of both the Reformation and Counter-reformation, Charles, during the tense political times which prevailed, viewed the inheritance of the throne of Protestant Sweden by his devout Roman Catholic nephew and Habsburg ally, Sigismund of Poland and Sweden, with alarm, and several years of religious controversy and discord followed.

Ossietzky was born in Hamburg, the son of Carl Ignatius von Ossietzky ( 1848 – 1891 ), a Protestant from Upper Silesia, and Rosalie ( née Pratzka ), a devout Catholic who wished for Carl to become a monk.

Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI ; she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I of England, a devout Roman Catholic, succeeds to the throne.

She was a devout Catholic living in the " Bible Belt ," the Protestant South.

Protestant hymns written mostly by New England preachers became a feature of camp meetings held among devout Christians across the South.

Although her mother was a devout Catholic, Reitsch and her siblings were brought up in the Protestant religion of their father, an ophthalmologist who wanted her to become a doctor.

He remained a devout Protestant all his short life, but migrated to Non-Church Christianity ( Mukyōkai ) as advocated by Uchimura Kanzō.

However, Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, distrusted parliamentary democracy in general and opposition parties in particular, especially when the Centre Party showed signs of gaining support among dissident elements such as the Polish Catholics in Silesia.

The culture war gave secularists and socialists an opportunity to attack all religions, an outcome that distressed the Protestant leaders and especially Bismarck himself, who was a devout pietistic Protestant.

He had initially perceived himself as a devout Protestant, but after reading the Bible numerous times, he perceived religion as a necessary pillar to civilization.

A learnt and devout Protestant, he settled in England some time before 1530 and established himself as a bookseller at St. Paul's Churchyard, London.

A devout Protestant, he soon became one of the leaders of the Lords of the Congregation along with his brother-in-law, Lord James Stewart, illegitimate son of James V of Scotland.

He is also a devout Protestant.

Ricœur was born in Valence, Drôme, France to a devout Protestant family, making him a member of a religious minority in Catholic France.

We must not forget that most philosophers of the time were at least nominal, if not devout, Christians, that the sixteenth century saw both the Protestant and the Catholic reformations, and that Renaissance philosophy culminates with the period of the Thirty Years ’ War ( 1618 – 1648 ).