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Germany's Rev. Martin Niemöller was immured nearly two years ago in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for his leadership of un-Nazified Confessional pastors. Pastor Niemöller, who was a U-boat commander in World War I, offered the Fatherland his services in World War II (TIME, Oct. 2). His offer was refused. Last week Pastor Niemöller's second offer to fight was rejected, by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder himself...
...explanation of Niemöller's militancy was offered by lank, twinkling-eyed Karl Barth, Swiss-born theologian who greatly influenced the Confessional group before his exile from Germany. Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...
...must not forget that Niemöller was always a good, a very good German, and he has remained so to this day. He fought valiantly in [World War I], convinced as he was of the justice of the German cause. Later he became a pastor, a very devoted pastor. But his old Adam-as with all of us-is not dead. I do not believe he lost his head when he offered his services to Hitler, but I believe he acted simply in the spirit which his old Adam dictated...
...Bohemia, could TIME tell what ever became of the Austrian Nazi Führer, Arthur Seyss-Inquart? Promptly after Anschluss Seyss-Inquart was shelved in favor of Josef Bürckel as Nazi Governor of Austria. Lastly, please what is the present fate of Kurt von Schuschnigg and Pastor Niemüller...
...Martin Niemöller, though acquitted of treason more than a year ago, is beginning his second year of "protective custody" in Sachsenhausen concentration camp...