Word: kerrl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church Affairs: Hanns Kerrl...
...Ministry suggested that the farmers call upon Church Minister Hans Kerrl. At the Church Ministry it was suggested that they try new Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. But even though the East Prussian farmers were thus shunted around they got action last week. The State, unwilling to have such horny-handed folk go back disgruntled to the Hindenburg Country and grumble, abruptly released most of the East Prussian pastors, none a nationally prominent figure in the Church...
...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...
...encroachments in spiritual matters as best they can, were subjected last week to fresh raids, arrests and browbeatings by police. The Protestants' leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, onetime submarine commander, bobbed up in his pulpit after a police grilling to say of Nazi Church Minister Hans Kerrl: "He regards faith in Jesus Christ as an absurd side issue!" With the Fatherland careening into the most ominous crisis of faith since the Russian Revolution, Adolf Hitler's delirious Jew-baiting friend Julius Streicher roared at Nürnberg: "Every Catholic priest convicted of immorality must be beheaded...
...pastors' suspicions were borne out next day when the Nazi Government angrily unmasked a decree that Realmleader Hitler had signed early in the week. This gave to Minister Kerrl, who has called the Reichsfuhrer "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland," absolute dictatorial powers over all Protestant churches in Germany...