Gandhi schreibt Hitler

Letters Of Note wäre eigentlich ein Fall für die Blog Of The Day Rubrik, ist es doch in seiner Gesamtheit wirklich interessant. Dennoch mag ich einen Brief heute hervorheben, hat er mich doch enorm überrascht, oder wusstet Ihr, dass Mahatma Gandhi Adolf Hitler einen Brief schickte? Nein? Genau!

Angekommen ist der Brief vom 23. Juli 1939 allerdings nie. Warum nicht erfahrt ihr hier.

Dear friend,

Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth. It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.

I remain,

Your sincere friend,
M. K Gandhi.

[via Letters Of Note]