Word: kerrl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestantism. Like Wurm, the new chairman, stocky, white-goateed Bishop Otto Dibelius, Lutheran Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, was unbending in his opposition to the Nazis. Barred from the pulpit, he defied Nazi orders against speaking and writing, and was brought to trial. When Minister for Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl shouted at him: "What right have you to speak for the Church, now that you have been dismissed from your religious duties?" Dibelius answered calmly: "Herr Minister, a Christian is never off duty...
Died. Hanns Kerrl, 54, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs; in Berlin. As Prussian Minister of Justice in 1933-34 he introduced the crime of "race treason"-mixing Jewish and "Aryan" blood. He was made Minister of Church Affairs in 1935, given the job of bringing the churches under full State control. He failed, and most of his power was taken from...
...vigorous was Confessional and Lutheran Council opposition to Reichsbishop Muller that Hitler soon shelved him, presently gave his powers to Minister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl. Minister Kerrl's creed: "The primacy of the State over the Church must be recognized. . . . The question of the divinity of Christ is ridiculous and unessential. A new authority, Adolf Hitler, has arisen as to what Christ and Christianity really are." To Minister Kerrl, Adolf Hitler is "the Jesus Christ as well as the Holy Ghost of the Fatherland...