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...rttem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early last week and Bishop Wurm, suspended last month, was permanently removed from office, placed under arrest in his home. That left only Bavaria and its Bishop Hans Meisser outside the fold...
Loyally Bishop Meisser's flock stuck by him. Fortnight ago he went out to a mountain village to preach. Eight hundred hulking woodsmen filled the pockets of their leather breeches with stones and dared Nazi Storm Troopers to interfere. Then last week the whisper was passed about Munich: "Go to the Mattiaskirche on Thursday evening. Bishop Meisser will have something...
Noon of the day of the scheduled sermon secret police and blackcoated S. S. Troopers suddenly piled into the residence of Bishop Meisser. He was placed under arrest, forbidden to leave his house, told that he had been removed as head of his diocese. Remembering lessons learned in last June's "blood purge," the S. S. Troopers were careful to offer no threats to the Bishop's person, to give him complete liberty within the building. Bishop Hans Meisser puttered quietly up & downstairs all afternoon...