A quote from Dale Hurd on CBN.com, 16 October 2006

In southern Germany last week I met members of 4 home schooling families who are being punished by the German government for home schooling.

Three of the home schooling fathers I talked to had already been jailed. And the day after this video was shot, another home schooling father we talked to, Waldemar Block, was taken away to jail. Then two days after our visit, Olga Block, wife of Waldemar’s brother Alexander, was taken to jail.

[...] What makes this even more egregious is that these are German Baptist families from the Soviet Union, where they faced similar persecution. They returned to Germany when the iron curtain fell and no doubt expected more from the German government.

Another embarrassing aspect of this story for the Germans is the Chancellor who first outlawed home schooling: Adolf Hitler.
 

More on this topic:

European Human Rights Court Upholds Nazi Ban on Homeschooling, 28 September 2006

Homeschool Persecution in Germany, 25 September 2006

Germany Imprisons Mum. Dad and Kids Flee to Austria, 12 September 2006

Hitler’s Ghost Haunts German Parents, 1 August 2005

 

See also:

Crackdown on Homeschoolers: It’s the UN Wot Done It, 20 June 2006

Brussels Journal Editor Threatened with Prosecution over Homeschooling, 15 June 2006