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There are only half as many Protestants as Catholics in Bavaria, but those there are as stubborn as Scots Calvinists. Of all the 28 onetime independent Lutheran state churches of Germany, only two up to last week still held out against the whip-snapping of Adolf Hitler's bullet-headed Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller (TIME, Oct 1 et ante). This bold pair were the provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early...
...Bavaria I never saw any indication of tension or fear of the future. People discussed Hitler and everything else openly. . .Once in a while you ran across a swastika painted on a barn...
...German Christian banners. Dr. Müller recited the Apostles' Creed, mentioned Martin Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof Muüller attempted forcibly to incorporate in his Reich church. When the consecration was over the Reichsbischof went outside to reiterate, over the loudspeakers set up for the crowds that were not present, that Germany...
...maternal side, he is a nephew of the late Simon Muhr, one of the leading and outstanding citizens of the 1890's, a philanthropist, whose name continues to live. The family is a noted one in the town of Schenhausen, Bavaria where is their ancestral home, built in 1736, and lived in ever since by them. At this time there is still one of the family bearing the name living there...
...high Bavarian crag 45 minutes by motor from the nearest railway station perches Tiefenbrunn, the estate of cleft-nosed Dr. Kurt Schmitt. The view from his bedroom window is scarcely rivaled in all Bavaria. In bed last week with a telephone at his elbow the German Economics Minister was struggling with a strangling crisis in the Fatherland's economic life...