Word: reichsbischof
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...remainder have either joined Germany's innumerable pagan cults or, as "German Christians." have sought to purge Christianity of its inconvenient elements. Purgers-in-chief have been the German Christian Bishop of Bremen, Dr. Heinz Weidemann, and Ludwig Miiller, the bullet-pated army chaplain whom Hitler appointed Reichsbischof in 1933, supplanted in 1935. Both prelates have sought to find a pure, Nazified essence of German Christianity in the New Testament-the Old Testament being, to Nazis, a bad job, hopelessly full of Jews...
Much less stir was created few months ago by the Nazified version of Christ's Sermon on the Mount because its author, Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller, is in bad odor with the State Church. Humility and forgiveness find no place in Bishop Muller's Sermon on the Mount. Heavily stressed are '"blood" and "comradeship." Example. Matthew...
...limbo in which moderate Nazi authorities have been ardently trying to keep him popped Reichsbischof ("Reibi") Ludwig Müller last week. Bishop Müller was commissioned three years ago to Nazify all Protestant Christianity. So bullheaded were his tactics on behalf of his strange brand of Christianity that he promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars...
Actually Dr. Jaeger "resigned" only from his technical post of Administrator but he still retained his office as Chief of Reichsbischof Müller's Ecclesiastical Chancellery-and that higher ecclesiastical office he had not yet resigned. His opponents were unsatisfied with such mummery. Three days later Müller was forced to announce that he had stripped Jaeger of all Church office...
...Berlin one of the sturdiest Protestant pastors in the fight against Nazification, famed Rev. Martin Niemoeller, summed up last week's events thus: "The situation is unchanged, since Müller remains Reichsbischof...