Word: bodelschwingh
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TIME'S cover of Dec. 23, 1940 was so good that it is being used in the Argentine as German propaganda, with slight alterations, however. Niemöller's face has been changed to that of F. von Bodelschwingh, and the swastika on the original has been replaced with the British flag...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
Still head of Bodelschwingh Institute at Bethel (founded by his father), he last year defied Hitler's order to release several thousand defectives from that charitable institution. His reason: belief that they would be killed according to Nazi euthanasia theory. Nonetheless the Nazis tried to make capital of him in South America by a drawing (see cut] showing a British bomb hitting the Institute...
...finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church directorate which he promised to appoint instanter...
...meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German Christians...