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...Nazi school near Pastor Martin Neimöller's old church, Ziemer heard a geography lesson for nine-year-olds. Teacher: "[The U.S. has] a low type of government, a democracy. What is a democracy?" Pupils: "... A government by rich Jews. ... A government that will be defeated by the Führer." > Excerpts from a favorite song of Berlin University students (tune: O Tannenbaum...
Another Niemöller has arisen in Germany-this time a Roman Catholic, Count Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Minister in Westphalia. In August he denounced Naziism three times from his pulpit so vigorously that according to news which percolated to the U.S. last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler has urged Hitler to have him shot. To date he las not been touched, for his influence on the workers of Westphalia is so great, and the news of his resistance has grapevined so rapidly throughout the Reich, that the Mazis fear there would be a major work stoppage...
...come to be a thing of the past. If the Church is accused of disrupting the unity of a nation, the reply must be that the secret police is disrupting that unity in a way which concerns all Christians." He praised the heroism of imprisoned Protestant Pastor Niemöller, saying that Catholics and Protestants alike respected him and that he could not possibly be regarded as an enemy of the people though Nazis treated...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
Herewith also is the TIME cover (accurately reproduced but without permission) and printed with a Spanish translation of TIME'S Niemöller story by Buenos Aires' pro-British magazine Desfile. The British Embassy distributed 25,000 copies of this reprint in Argentina, ordered 250,000 more for all South America...