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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...
Berlin, Oct. 26--Opponents of Nazification of the German Evangelical Church won a preliminary victory tonight with the resignation of August Jaeger, Nazllay counsellor, from the church government of Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller...
...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...
...Church which calls itself a church of the gospel, the gospel is cast out and despotism and lying have gained control. . . . Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller and August Jaeger are responsible for this ravagement. Satan does his work through them. Therefore we cry to God to make us free...