Interviews with EyewitnessesInterview with H. SteurerA tin-foil ball passed to him on a railway platform freed him from pain caused by a mine explosion. Interview with E. SüffertAn asthma sufferer for 14 years tells how Bruno Groening experienced her condition in his own body and healed her. Interview with L. Schlüter, Herford, WilhelmsplatzHerford, Wilhelm’s Square - 1949. The lame walk, the blind see. A child’s power of hearing is restored. Interview with Mrs Loschek, HerfordHerford: A child experiences how a woman gets up from her wheel chair and walks again. Eyewitness ReportTwo spontaneous healings:
Interview with Mrs HinzGod’s work is revealed at Traberhof Interview with G. Kalz"Stand up and walk..." said Bruno Groening. And the woman who had sat in a wheelchair for 20 years stood up and walked. Interview with G. Clausen"Suddenly I had a feeling as though somebody was blowing into my hand and the pain was gone." Interview with H. SteurerBruno Groening often travelled by train to people seeking help, and the following occurred on one of these journeys:
"I happened to be standing on the platform and I was in great pain. I had read about his work among suffering people in the paper. Now, there he was, looking out of the train window. I went over to him and asked him please to help me as I was in great pain. He got up and went to the back of his compartment, then came back and handed me a tin-foil ball through the window. He told me to lay the ball against those parts of my body that pained me and that I should pray. Then his train began to move. "My pains were caused by an exploding mine and the resultant splinter injuries. I lost my right eye and an arm. I followed Bruno Groening’s advice at once and held the ball close to my body. In a very short time the pains were gone and never recurred. "From the very first moment Mr. Groening made a particular and wonderful impression on me. I had the feeling here was a person who could really help. He did not ask for payment for the ball, he just helped me selflessly." Interview with E. Süffert"A neighbour introduced me to Mr. Groening in Munich. She knew that I had suffered heavy attacks of asthma for 14 years and my courage to face life had often faltered. I was charmingly received. Bruno Groening sat behind a desk and I sat opposite him. Neither of us crossed our arms or legs. He asked me to breathe quietly and deeply. He did the same, which struck as very funny and I wanted to laugh. In...out...in...out. Then I felt heat in my legs. Mr. Groening mentioned that my recent operation had healed well. I had not mentioned that subject to him. He explained to me that he felt everything and this was how he obtained his knowledge. He knew about my previous infectious jaundice, that I often had to get up at night to pass water and sometimes had no bowel movement for days. He knew simply everything, and now I was less inclined to laugh. He asked me to continue the breathing exercise. Then a bad attack suddenly started and I felt as though a heavy rock was lying on me. Mr. Groening was breathing as loudly as I was. Suddenly, just as I felt that my air supply was being cut off, I had the sensation that energy was streaming through my body, from my head to my stomach. After this I was able to breathe freely and deeply. That night I slept so quietly that my husband woke me to make sure I was still alive. Previously I had spent the night sitting, rather than lying in bed and my breathing sounded like an express train pulling into Munich station. "I experienced Bruno Groening as a very spiritualised person. I felt there was a spiritual bond between us. He gave me three small discs of tin-foil, which I was to place on my chest and stomach and said I would then be able to breathe freely. I did this and since then I have never had another attack." Interview with L. Schlüter, Herford, WilhemsplatzHerford was where Bruno Groening’s work began on a large scale and the press brought the first reports of what was happening there. People seeking help came in their thousands from near and far to experience healing. In the crowds stood Mrs Schlüter and her blind mother-in law. The latter was physically very weak and permanently needed help for her daily toilet and getting dressed. Mrs Schlüter reported as follows: "I learned about the many healings through an illustrated magazine. The pictures showed what was happening in Herford and I said to myself, you must go there with your mother-in-law! "Packed like sardines in a tin, we stood among all these people in front of house number 7 in Wilhelm’s Square. On our right there were around 30 people in their wheelchairs. We all waited and waited. Nobody spoke. Everyone was tense and kept looking up to the balcony where Bruno Groening was to appear. It was already very late in the evening when somebody came out on the balcony to pacify us. He said Bruno Groening was still busy with other people needing help. "Be patient! Bruno Groening will definitely come!" And so we waited. Three days and three nights. Suddenly Bruno Groening was there and everyone was overjoyed. He began to speak, telling us that we all needed help and healing and God was the supreme doctor for all mankind. Then he called on the lame people to leave their wheelchairs. „'You can walk! Get up" Nobody moved. Again he encouraged them to have faith in God and stand up. „'Just believe that you can do it, stand up!" "Then, one after the other they stood up. They could walk! Nobody could believe what they were seeing. We were all speechless. People began to cry. Then Bruno Groening said: „'I would like everyone who is blind and deaf and dumb to come to the front door of the house." So we pushed forward and he spoke to these people, also to my mother-in-law. He took a two-year old girl from the arms of her mother. She was deaf and dumb. Mr. Groening caressed the child and spoke to it. Then he held a tuning-fork to the child’s ear. She turned her head towards it. It was quite obvious that the child could now hear. Another child recovered its sight. These were the most moving scenes of my life. "Later we went home. My mother-in-law had recovered her sight to the extent that she could move freely on her own around her house. Her general condition also improved and she no longer needed the daily help she had had before. "My recollections of Bruno Groening? He was simply dressed, like everyone else, but he radiated love, like nobody else. One had confidence in him immediately. His personal magnetism said more than a thousand words." Interview with Mrs Loschek, Herford"In those days we lived in Herford. It was a coincidence that my mother and I walked through Wilhelm’s Square. There were many, many people there. Bruno Groening stood on the balcony of no. 7 and spoke to them. We stopped for a while and looked around. We saw a woman get up from her wheelchair and walk around. She was crying. Other people were telling their neighbours how their pains had gone. My mother urged me to walk on, which I very much regretted. I would have liked to stay longer. Nevertheless, this experience has remained with me all my life." Eyewitness ReportAt the same time that people were waiting for help in Wilhelm’s Square, events like the following were taking place: Doctors had given up all hope of curing the mother of our eye-witness. She had had no bowel movement for six weeks. Enemas and laxatives had no effect. In addition she had an embolism. Eye-witness: "We, all the family members, were at our wit’s end. We grasped at every straw that could help our mother. This was the situation when we heard that Bruno Groening was here in Herford with a very sick person in Wittekind Street. I went there. There were already twenty other people, all of them seeking help. When Bruno Groening came out to greet us he said to me: „'Wait for me in the kitchen. This evening I’ll go with you to your mother." 'I don’t know how he knew that I had come because of my mother. I had said nothing to him. "While I waited in the kitchen I witnessed the following scene: "A mother arrived with her child who had terrible whooping cough. We heard this dreadful whooping from a long way off. The two of them were led into the kitchen. Bruno Groening stroked the boy’s hair tenderly. Turning to the mother he said: „Pay attention to your child. In a quarter of an hour he will vomit yellow mucus." ' Then he left the kitchen to attend to the other people. Suddenly the child began to retch. I just managed to pick him up and hold him over the coal box before he vomited. Such an attack of vomiting I have never seen in my life. Later Bruno Groening said to the mother: „'Your child is cured…" She left and the child did not cough again. "At midnight we drove to my mother in Bielefeld. During the journey Bruno Groening said that I should not worry, as the healing power comes from God. Mankind must believe in the aspects of goodness. Furthermore, he added, he was now, during the journey, busying himself with my mother; indeed he had made spiritual contact with her. "When we entered my mother’s bedroom, Bruno Groening sat on her bed. To my great joy I saw that her eyes were already noticeably clearer. Her stomach however was swollen like a barrel. Bruno Groening then spoke to her and I could see how the joy of living flowed back into my mother. Her heart opened to Bruno Groening; she believed in him. He asked for a glass of water for my mother and said that it would do her good. I fetched fresh water from the pump in the yard and my mother drank it. Bruno Groening then addressed my father and said: „'Pay attention to the stools and urine of your wife. You will be amazed how everything loosens inside and what comes away. " My father asked Bruno Groening, what he should pay him. Bruno Groening simply said: „We should thank God, and in appreciation, write a letter outlining what we have experienced." "The next day my mother’s stomach started to rumble. Father said that the stools she passed filled seven chamber pots. Two days later my mother got out of bed, completely healed. From that moment without any medical attention, her ulcerated legs and varicose veins were also completely healed. Her doctor was speechless. This happening was the main topic of conversation in our village. "When I looked Bruno Groening in the eyes, I knew: Here is a true believer! His personal magnetism was unique. If anyone had told me about such an experience before, I would have thought: "Come on, you’re crazy!" But you have to experience it for yourself in order to be able to believe it. This event was a unique experience for me." Interview with Mrs Hinz"I heard about Bruno Groening at Traberhof from an acquaintance. On the strength of what she told me, I drove over there for two days. "There were at least ten to twenty thousand people on the property when I arrived. Bruno Groening was not to be seen. We waited for him for hours. "Then he arrived and spoke down to the people from a balcony. I felt an electrifying, vibrant tingling in my whole body. The people around me were also noticeably affected; their limbs seemed to be flying around. I would never have believed that something like this was possible if I hadn’t experienced it myself. "A woman began to shout: "I don’t need a walking stick any longer! I can walk again." "Although the crowd was very dense I managed to make my way through it because I was so interested in what was happening. "Red Cross workers were helping a man to his feet from a primitive stretcher of wooden boards. He lifted his hands in supplication. The sweat was running off him in streams. I asked him what was wrong with him and he said: "I am a disabled ex-serviceman." Later this man was able to leave his stretcher. "Then I saw a grandfather with his 8-year old grandson. The old man was crying. The boy had not been able to walk. They had cobbled together a little waggon from simple wooden boards to bring the boy to Bruno Groening. Now, in tears, he told me that the boy could walk again. "Nearby a man vaulted over a fence and I said to him: "Well, you’re in the wrong place here." He replied: "Last Sunday I was lame and was dragging myself around on crutches." Five days later this man was jumping over fences! He beamed with happiness and showed me his disabled ex-serviceman’s card. "I also met an old man sitting in a wheelchair. He had been healed, but had lost the healing again. People had told him that his healing would not last and that Groening was a charlatan. He had believed this. "Day and night the place was full of people. The whole time I was at Traberhof I was not hungry. "There was no hysteria among the masses. They all hoped and believed that they would regain their health. When I saw these people lying on stretchers and propped on their crutches I was innerly so shattered that I could not talk and could barely look at them. "I think Bruno Groening had a very special bond with God. I was sorry that I was not able to encounter him more often. Today still I often recall this experience." Interview with G. Kalz"The mother of my colleague had been tied to her wheel-chair for 25 years. When the conversation turned to Bruno Groening I said to her: "Try it, let the man come..." That was, I believe, in 1956. They got into touch with Bruno Groening and he promised to come and see them one morning. "When Bruno Groening arrived, several friends of the family were there, because they were curious to see what was going to happen. The old lady was taken out of her bed and put into her wheel-chair, which was standing in the living room, opposite to where Bruno Groening was sitting. Nobody was allowed to stay in the room. Everybody had to leave. "Old Mrs. W. and Mr. Groening were left alone. All agog, we were listening outside the door, hoping to hear something. Suddenly we heard Bruno Groening saying loudly and clearly: 'Get up and walk...' I can swear that the old lady could not walk one single step before! When we heard these words, nothing could keep us behind the door any longer. We threw it open and saw that the old lady could now walk. My colleague's wife wanted to give her mother-in-law a helping hand but Bruno Groening told her, that Mrs. W. could walk by herself. She really got up and walked, without help, all by herself! We all had tears in our eyes. It was hard to believe, but we had seen and witnessed it with our own eyes. "Bruno Groening had neither hypnotised the old lady nor had he touched her. He had done nothing except look her firmly in the eye, and say: 'Stand up!' And she got up and walked. "It made me think: "Could it be that there really is a God?" There was not a single person in the room who was not crying for joy. It was simply a deeply moving experience. And then Bruno Groening said: 'You can walk now.' "Mrs. W. was the talking point of the district. It was a sensation. The news spread like wildfire: She can walk! Within a very short time approximately 200 people had gathered, wanting to see Mrs. W. walk. She walked up and down the street to show the people. "Bruno Groening did not ask for payment for coming. I can only report good of him, he had a very special magnetism. "The healing of Mrs. W. has lasted." Interview with G. ClausenIn the 1950’s I used to live near the Ütersen air base. One day Bruno Groening walked past our window and my children called my attention to him. We knew Mr. Groening from newspaper articles. When I saw him at the window, I thought to myself. "Where is he going?'' When I saw him going into my neighbour's home, I ran over to her and knocked on the door. I learned that my neighbour was Bruno Groening`s sister. I was invited into the kitchen and told to take a seat at the table opposite Bruno Groening. His sister sat between us. Bruno Groening told me to sit comfortably, not cross my arms and legs, and pay attention to what I was going to feel. He said to me: 'Take in as much of the stream as you can.' And then I felt, to my astonishment - for he was sitting at the other end of the table from me - a sort of breeze in the palms of my hands, as if somebody was gently blowing into them; I am prepared to swear to this. And then suddenly and unexpectedly his sister felt pains in her leg and cried out: "Ow, ow, ow!" "And I was thinking: "But that is my pain, which has always tortured me." For years I had had the feeling as if my leg did not belong to me, as if it was only glued on. No medical treatment had been able to relieve me of this condition. "I called out loudly: “But those are my pains, I have them all the time!" Bruno Groening only said one word: 'Had!' At that moment the pain left his sister and my leg felt totally normal again for the first time in years. I was free, without pains, my leg belonged to me again, and from that moment I no longer had a limp. I was healed and have remained so. "Bruno Groening did not ask for money. On the contrary, he gave me a piece of tinfoil, with "God's blessing wherever you go'' written on it. "The visit lasted half an hour. Afterwards I walked back to my home, completely healed." |
H. Steurer: "The train in which Bruno Groening was travelling arrived
at Innsbruck station, where it was only making a short stop. Bruno Groening pulled down
the window of his compartment and looked out.