Word: reichsbischof
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...grim Reich Protestant Administration Building at Berlin last week pale, portly Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller trembled with excitement. "This day," he cried, "will be the glory and the crown of my career!" Two dozen brand new Nazi bishops who had hurried to Berlin at the beck of the man who made them clucked in sympathy. In their mystical German minds floated the belief that they were about to merge German Protestantism into a new unity...
...tremendous day, Reichsbischof Müller was thunderstruck to receive word that Realmleader Hitler had a toothache and could not receive the oaths. But he could and did receive the French Ambassador...
Around the Reichsbischof consternation spread. Even his ruthless, sabre-scarred "Civil Administrator" Dr. August Jaeger, took alarm. Dr. Jaeger has done most of the Reichsbischof's dirty work, tearing around Germany with squads of police, seizing the treasuries of bishops deposed by Dr. Müller. even ordering them locked up by Storm Troopers in their ecclesiastical palaces (TIME, Oct. 22). All this, as the Fatherland knows, was done with the avowed aim of knocking Protestant factions together into a unified National Church. But last week frightened Dr. Jaeger bleated, "I have never used the words 'National Church...
...niggling crowd of 5,000 turned out for the rally. The unhappy Reichsbischof had to cancel most of his arrangements. Docile strollers on Unter den Linden saluted the German Christians, wondered why, instead of hymns, their band blared such popular tunes as: "Laura, Laura." and "Do You Think, Oh My Berlin Maid, That Because I Dance With You I'll Marry...
...Martin Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof Muüller attempted forcibly to incorporate in his Reich church. When the consecration was over the Reichsbischof went outside to reiterate, over the loudspeakers set up for the crowds that were not present, that Germany now has a United Evangelical Church...