Comments on Hilmar von Campe’s Battle for Truth

You are in a unique position to illuminate the mindset that allowed Hitler to rationolize the extermination of millions of Jews – given your personal travails during that tragic era. Americans would do well to heed your insights into similar dangers facing the today’s world.

Dr. James Dobson
Founder and Chairman of Focus on the Family

Hilmar von Campe has led a life which epitomizes Christ’s message of salvation of sin. The reader (of your book How was it Possible?) will be profoundly inspired and educated by Hilmar’s eloquent account of his journey from one complicit in evil to a man who has become a Christian exemplar par excellence.

Howard Phillips
Twice a presidential candidate
Chairman of the Conservative Caucus

Free societies survive by self-correction and the unceasing search for truth. Hilmar von Campe’s life story exemplifies that ethic of honesty, from his early years in the Hitler Youth to his impassioned witness as an American patriot today. You will treasure this book.

John Andrews
Former President, Colorado Senate
Host, Backbone Radio

I have known Hilmar von Campe to be an observer of international developments whose analyses and positions have always impressed me. His experiences and observations yield worthwhile concepts and suggestions.  Due to my long-time friendship with him, I am in a position to say that he is a person of integrity whose contributions towards the fight for truth and its corresponding political structure are no less remarkable.

Dr. Paul Muenstermann
Vicepresident (ret.)
Bundes Nachrichten Dienst
(German Federal Intelligence Service)

Hilmar von Campe should become an example and guiding light for all present Day German descendents of the Holocaust generation and make amendments like he did! Because of it became friends that I am proud to be.

Max Weim, Vice President of
The Holocaust Survivors Club of South Florida.

I know Hilmar von Campe to be a man of utmost integrity. His story is the truth. A story we all can and need to learn from, so that the horrors of Nazi Germany will never be repeated. We must never foget the lessons of history.

Sharon Hughes
President, The Center of Changing Worldviews
Talk Show Host – WOMAN Talk

Dear Hilmar!
I have read your book and am very touched and impressed by it! It reads very well, is thrilling, very moving, raises deep human and supernatural questions, comes from your heart, is very honest, and shows really the problem we have in this world today: the Godlessness. And it shows how human beings are changed in their characters, when they convert to the Christian faith. The most touching part was to read the letter about the suffering of your father. What a pain, but also what a consolation must it have been for your mom and you children to know about his last days, full of terrible suffering, but also full of love for his family. I learnt a lot about the Second World War, the sufferings of the expellees from their homeland, the true nature of Hitler and Nazism, the cruelty of the Russians, and about the falsety of the Allies. I am very glad that I read that book! I am convinced that it will find a lot of interested readers in this country, as they can le arn in a more differentiated way about the German history, without propaganda. As you said, I hope that that kind of history is not already on the way again...

Maike Hickson
German after-war generation
Ph. D. and author

I was tremendously impressed with the main theme of the story and of course I openly cried, as I read about the suffering that your dad had to endure….I applaud you as a practicing catholic, for your emphasis on the importance of keeping his commandments. I marvel at your insightfulness in targetig the ACLU as a destructive organizationand that we better sit up and take notice.

Albert Chestone
FBI agent (ret.)

Hilmar von Campe’s story is one of extravagant grace.  Raised by God-fearing Christian parents in Germany and motivated like many of his generation by the cause of German Nationalism, Hilmar served as a soldier in the German army during World War II.  In the devastating aftermath of Germany’s defeat and as the realities of Hitler’s atrocities became widespread, Mr. von Campe began a deep personal process of repentance and pursuit of God’s truth, which has led him to invest his life on a mission to challenge cultures about the dangerous power of deception. 

Hilmar understands better than most that truth is the platform upon which God’s people must stand.  He stands today as a prophet to our own culture in America.  His story is not only fascinating because of its historical context, but it is highly relevant.  As someone once said, “Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.”  His passion is penetrating and at times disconcerting, but his message is authentic.

I have known very few people in my life who understand grace at the level that Hilmar has experienced it.  He has not only accepted responsibility for his own sins, but for the sins of his fatherland, reminding us all that to be truly forgiven for any sin, we must accept our propensity for all sin.  Only then can we know the total freedom of forgiveness.

Bill Kierce, Lead Pastor
Jubilee Shores United Methodist Church

The story is dynamite with explosive potential to shape the moral composition of America and awaken its atrophied national conscience.  Your personal saga is intensely dramatic and deeply human evoking a torrid melting pot of emotions and sparking countless morally rich ideas through your candor in sharing your failures, tragedies and triumphs.  The transposing of the impact a nation’s morality and attitude toward God has upon its destiny with your inside story of Hitler’s rise and fall as a German citizen, along with your insights into the shrouded portions of the War’s history is huge.  It is a very powerful way to communicate truth and holds much promise.  I think it has tremendous marketability, and incredible potential to shape the thinking of your readers.

Rick Kern
Journalist

I was asked what I think of German author Hilmar von Campe: "Is he an ordinary man who has sought to do a little good? a rigorous intellectual? a fraud?" As von Campe was unknown to me so far, I had a look at him and his work and after a first cursory assessment I'd definitely say that he is NOT a fraud.

What impresses me specifically is that he doesn't pose as a former rabid Nazi who saw the light, but that he stresses the fact that it was looking the other way of ordinary people like himself which made the Nazi atrocities possible. I appreciate, too, that he seems to see the Communist crimes in perspective and doesn't reckon them up against the Nazi crimes, something only too many Germans like to do.

I appreciate, too, that he draws the inevitable parallels between Nazi Germany and the recent Muslim threat. It needs a lot of courage to do that.

Hilmar von Campe's biography bears witness to the fact that the secular Leftist/Liberal ideologies are no answer to the totalitarian and inhuman threats now, as they haven’t been an answer then.

Nora Brinker
Independent German Journalist and translator with an MA in history
A former socialist and agnostic who found a faith in God

It is my pleasure to recommend Hilmar von Campe to the Body of Christ. Hilmar has in my opinion an international perspective that touches deeply on where we are in America today… Hilmar also speaks a message of reconciliation that is so vital to the work of the Kingdom of God today.

Pastor Jeff Kipp
Shoesh David, The Root of David Messianic

I am reading "Connecting with the Power of God," yes, one of your father's books!  I appreciate how he interjects personal stories, thoughts, and views on the world and the relationship between humanity and God throughout the book.  Most of all I like how your father discusses religious doctrinal differences and how in your family he did not let it become a matter of division.  Your father seems a man of true character.   I was inspired by him when he came to Regent, and even more so now, by reading one of his books. Let him know that I find his words and stories inspiring and relevant to my walk with the Lord…..

LaToya Cain, student at Regent Government School, to Stefan von Campe

What was it like to be a Christian in Nazi Germany? Hilmar von Campe sees moral parallels berween the Nazi era and today’s America.

Pete Winn, associate editor, Citizen Link, website of Focus on the Family

Experience with lies led this man to teach value of truth. von Campe has spent his life traveling around the world meeting people and promoting the belief that Freedom can only exist if based on truth

Brenda G.Anderson, Press Register, Mobile Alabama