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...This is the "dying hour of Protestantism" in Germany, said Germany's neutralist-minded Pastor Martin Niemöller, as quoted this week in the Christian Century. "Should the forced partition of our people persist, then . . . Romanization threatens in the West in the near future, while the existence of Protestantism behind the Iron Curtain can at best continue for only one generation. At present, everything indicates that Romanization here and Sovietization there can hardly be opposed with a chance of success." If the state uses its authority to impose Christianity, says Niemöller, "Protestantism will...
What visiting West German critics saw were rank upon rank of slavish, posterlike pictures and sculpture dedicated to tested propaganda themes. They bore such titles as World Youth Festivals, To the Patriot Philipp Müller,* The First Furrow for the Collective Farm, and the styles were all obedient, School-of-Moscow realism. There were glorified scenes of farmers and construction workers, kindly Red soldiers surrounded by admiring children, ball-fisted strikers and heroic rioters-all with clear brows, stern eyes and rippling muscles...
...long before the Nazis began open warfare against religion. In rigged elections, they pushed pro-Nazi clergymen into positions of authority in the provincial Lutheran churches. Pastor Martin Niemöller was arrested when he spoke out against their anti-Semitism from his pulpit. Dibelius preached from Niemöller's church in Dahlem the following Sunday, and was soon on trial himself. Although acquitted by an old-fashioned judge, he was suspended from his position as general superintendent of the Kurmark church district. Still, he kept up a stouthearted resistance. Once Albert Kerrl, Nazi Minister for Church Affairs...
...Stuttgart, at war's end, Dibelius and Niemöller, released from a Nazi jail, signed the "confession of guilt" on behalf of the German churches. Neither this, however, nor their anti-Nazi activities during the war meant that they were secret adherents of the democracies all along. Two of Dibelius' sons, Franz and Wolfgang, had been killed in action. A hymn Dibelius wrote while they were at the front sounds like a companion piece to Deutschland iiber Alles (beginning: "Surrounded by the power of the foe. arise, thou German land . . ."). Dibelius' essential objection to Naziism, like...
...news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers have accused Bishop Hermann Müller of preventing youngsters in a church home for crippled children from joining a Red youth group -and have demanded that the church home be "placed in the hands of the state." Just so, in the recent past, did the Communists launch their campaigns against the churches of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia...