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...thoroughly has the Nazi Reich Bishop, blustering onetime Army Chaplain Luclwig Miiller, been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition...
...Adolf Hitler who abruptly bestowed arbitrary power to settle all German church issues upon Vice President of the Reichstag Hans Kerrl, a young and virile Jew-baiter? Herr Karrl's appointment came apparently from the Ministry of Interior. No confirmation could be had that the Realmleader approved this or Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick's other drastic move last week in appointing as Berlin's Chief of Police ruthless, Jew-baiting Count Wolf von Helldorf who was once the intimate friend of the late Storm Troop Leader Ernst Roehm. Did Hitler, Germans wanted to know, approve...
Death to Dissenters. Starting with the state mechanism for suppression of crime and calling in Prussian Minister of Justice Hans Kerrl, Premier Göring drafted a set of laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
Discreetly behind a cloud of Prussian censorship last week Minister of Justice Kerrl and Premier Göring were making it possible for scores if not hundreds of wealthy tax-dodgers to hold their heads high...
Some commissars have actually called in brown-shirted Storm Troops to oust business leaders who too strongly resisted Nazi dictation. Last week such interference was classed legally as "kidnapping" in a drastic decree issued by Prussian Minister of Justice Dr. Hans Kerrl who promised to punish offenders without mercy. "Force or threats" against business executives were expressly barred by Dr. Kerrl and he branded many Nazi commissioners as "saboteurs and provocateurs" who will be brought before special courts and face "not only imprisonment but even the death penalty...