Word: dibelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before an emergency court in Berlin was Rev. Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius. eminent theologian and general superintendent of the Confessional Synod. He was charged by Nazi Church-Minister Hans Kerrl with publishing a letter last winter falsely accusing Minister Kerrl of mocking, in a public speech, that ABC of Christian doctrine-that Jesus is the Son of God. Three competent attorneys appeared for Dr. Dibelius; the public was admitted except when Minister Kerrl was present; the press was admitted throughout the trial...
...Church Minister, supported by two chief assistants, mumbled and blustered. He could not remember exactly what he had said in his speech but how could Dr. Dibelius know-he was not there. Six witnesses, however, backed the defendant: two stated emphatically that the speech had been an anti-Christian attack; one produced painstaking notes that he had taken down at the time. Dr. Dibelius won another point by revealing that he had sent a copy of the accusing letter, before its publication, to Adolf Hitler and other Cabinet members, had received no replies forbidding or otherwise. For eight hours...
...interest in the trial scheduled for this week, of the Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, fiery ex-U-boat commander arrested last March on "still more serious charges." Since Dr. Niemoller has long been the spearhead of the Confessional movement many Churchmen regarded the unexceptionable handling of Dr. Dibelius' trial as disingenuous window-dressing, wherein the Nazis deliberately threw a small fish back into the pond, while they went right ahead with their plans to land a whale...