(b.1909), was released in 1964 after having spent 14 years in prison in Romania for his faith. A Lutheran minister, he has since become an internationally known speaker. He wrote: Tortured For Christ; Underground Saints; Christ in the Communist Prison, 1968; Stronger Than Prison Walls, 1969; and My Answer to the Moscow Atheists, 1975. Rev. Wurmbrand gave the world’s view of America in 1967:
Every freedom-loving man has two fatherlands; his own and America. Today, America is the hope of every enslaved man, because it is the last bastion of freedom in the world. Only America has the power and spiritual resources to stand as a barrier between militant Communism and the people of the world.
It is the last “dike” holding back the rampaging floodwaters of militant Communism. If it crumples, there is no other dike, no other dam; no other line of defense to fall back upon.
America is the last hope of millions of enslaved peoples. They look to it as their second fatherland. In it lies their hopes and prayers.
I have seen fellow-prisoners in Communist prisons beaten, tortured, with 50 pounds of chains on their legs—praying for America. … that the dike will not crumple; that it will remain free.3578