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Americans found it hard to fathom Pastor Martin Niemöller. After V-E day, the gaunt-faced old U-boat commander had dived repentantly, leaving a bubble of advice to his fellow Germans to confess "the crimes committed during the last twelve years." But last week, as the pastor-commander surfaced again, he seemed to be flying the old German flag. He bade Germans take no further voluntary part in denazification proceedings...
...tobacco merchant, Hermann attended Pastor Niemöller's Evangelical Church, spent most of the war years in school. After being inducted into an antiaircraft unit with his teachers and entire class, he decided that he was "willing not to fight for Hitler" and soon deserted. Hermann, who thinks the trouble with his countrymen is that they have been educated in "servile obedience," hopes to bring back some of the Schenectady spirit with...
...Martin Niemöller's speech-making tour of the U.S. officially ended last week. Before 2,600 students and others at Yale's Woolsey Hall, Dachau's most publicized prisoner raised his rich voice and pounded the lectern with his thin hands...
Since he first arrived in the U.S. in December, Pastor Niemöller has been quoted and misquoted by his defenders and detractors on almost every phase of his relations with Naziism. The feeling against him has focused on the fact that his opposition to Hitler was on religious, rather than on political grounds. Few have understood that for a traditional Lutheran, religious grounds are the only valid ones for opposition to the state...
According to Professor John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, Pastor Niemöller "now admits the social blind spot in his type of Lutheranism." It remains to be seen whether such a change is coming about in German Protestantism as a whole. Like Martin Niemöller, many another German has now learned that too much separation between church & state can be as unhealthy as too little...