Word: jaegers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually Dr. Jaeger "resigned" only from his technical post of Administrator but he still retained his office as Chief of Reichsbischof Müller's Ecclesiastical Chancellery-and that higher ecclesiastical office he had not yet resigned. His opponents were unsatisfied with such mummery. Three days later Müller was forced to announce that he had stripped Jaeger of all Church office...
Around the Reichsbischof consternation spread. Even his ruthless, sabre-scarred "Civil Administrator" Dr. August Jaeger, took alarm. Dr. Jaeger has done most of the Reichsbischof's dirty work, tearing around Germany with squads of police, seizing the treasuries of bishops deposed by Dr. Müller. even ordering them locked up by Storm Troopers in their ecclesiastical palaces (TIME, Oct. 22). All this, as the Fatherland knows, was done with the avowed aim of knocking Protestant factions together into a unified National Church. But last week frightened Dr. Jaeger bleated, "I have never used the words 'National Church...
...dealing with churchmen Realmleader Hitler has always proceeded on the theory that they can be hoodwinked, bluffed. Last week's move was to proclaim with loud fanfare that Dr. Jaeger had "resigned." Cables sped the news; world headlines blared it. A general impression was created with the Nazifiers and nationalizers had been vanquished at last by Germany's true Protestants...
This was not quite true. Most opposition pastors celebrated the embarrassment of Müller and Jaeger by hoisting white, purple-crossed church flags on Sunday for the first time in weeks...
...believed Jaeger quit to pave the the way for a settlement between the opposition pastors and Dr. Mueller, to which the counsellor was considered a serious obstacle...