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...Germany last week, Rev. Martin Niemöller began his second year in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he is confined for refusing to cut his faith to Nazi patterns. In the U. S., The Federal Council of Churches asked its constituents to devote attention to Pastor Niemöller's anniversary. In the Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind...
...Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch-sheet for winners," has found none among Protestants. The strongest of them, Martin Niemöller, has (according to Martin Schroeder) been dropped by his followers since his trial. Thus Hitler has turned to Catholicism, the faith in which he was baptized, and which now counts the nominal allegiance of 27,000,000 Germans.' In Austria, by the Schroeder arguement, antagonism to Rome...
Herr and Frau Ribbentrop, who had been greeted everywhere they went in London with angry cries of "Release Pastor Niemöller!", "Release Thälmann!" and "Get out, Ribbentrop!", then went along from Buckingham Palace to the second most exclusive address in the British Empire, No. 10 Downing Street. There a State luncheon, with plenty of wine, was offered them by Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain, who had invited pro-French Mr. & Mrs. Winston Churchill, pro-German Lord & Lady Londonderry and all the Cabinet's biggest wigs & wives. The news tickers at No. 10 were chattering about...
Under this old law, the court last week sentenced Niemöller not to imprisonment in jail but to "honorable detention in a fortress"* for seven months. Showing definite leniency, the court, which might have given Niemöller two years, decreed he had already served more than the sentence imposed while awaiting trial, need only pay a $600 fine to go free last week, so far as the court was concerned...
Stepping in the Nazi Secret Police settled Pastor Niemöller's hash by simply flinging him into a concentration camp where he will remain during Adolf Hitler's pleasure...