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Monday, May 27, 2013

Dr Albert Schweitzer

 

As a boy in Germany, I had two heroes: Heinz Helfgen who, penniless and on a borrowed pushbike, pedalled right around the world from 1951 to 1953 after which he wrote the book "Ich radle um die Welt", and Dr Albert Schweitzer, perhaps the greatest humanitarian the world has ever known who spent a lifetime in equatorial Africa curing the sick.

I have several books written by him and about him and have tried - unsuccessfully - to get a documentary and a dramatisation of his life and work in Lambaréné in present-day Gabon, both of which exist but are only available in NTSC format in the USA.

Thanks to YouTube, I have just now been able to watch this amazing documentary with incredible on-location footage of Albert Schweitzer at his hospital in Africa.

An amazing story of an amazing man.