It was a German whom God chose to begin the arduous task of restoring right doctrine to His Church in 1517.
It was a German whom God chose in 1521 to stand before the Emperor and the pope and declare the true Faith and refuse to recant.
It was Germans whom God chose in 1529 to stand before the Emperor and demand freedom for the true Faith.
It was Germans whom God chose to defend His Word and His truth at Augsburg in 1530.
It was Germans who held the walls and the gates of Magdeburg against the massed might of the Empire, refusing to yield to false doctrine and false bishops.
It was Germans who pledged their possessions, their lives, and their honor in 1580 by signing the Book of Concord and declaring they would suffer all — even death — before falling away from the true Faith.
It was Germans who suffered and died by the millions in the Thirty Years’ War, rather than abandon the one true Faith and join the Antichrist of Rome.
It was Germans who suffered and died by the millions between 1914 and 1918 at the hands of our cousins who had been misled by anti-Christian advisers and faithless princes.
It was Germans who, again, suffered and died by the millions between 1939 and 1945 at the hands of our erstwhile cousins who had, again, been misled by anti-Christian advisers and faithless princes.
It is Germans who, today, are still hated and persecuted by Satan and his forces, largely for the role that we have played in the history of the Church.
It is Germans who will be given the crown of the martyr for all that we have suffered in the name of Christ and His Church.
Soli Deo Gloria.