Word: reichsbischof
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After this oath had been read out a lay delegate from Stuttgart defied the Reichsbischof to his face...
Meanwhile German Protestants were gagged last week by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick. In an effort to force all groups under a new German Protestant Constitution to be drawn up by Dr. Ludwig Müller, a onetime Army chaplain who was made Reichsbischof by Chancellor Hitler (TIME, July 10, 1933), Dr. Frick decreed that there shall be "no discussion of church policies" in public assemblies of three or more persons or by printed or written words. Only the Reichsbischof did Dr. Frick except from this gag, and to him all other Protestants were supposed to listen in obedient silence...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler was making progress in his chambers on the Wilhelmstrasse toward solution of the strife between Reichsbischof Ludwig Miller and the 7,000 Emergency Lutheran Pastors when in stormed General GÖring...
...Reichsbischof Müller, no friend of Jews, declared in an interview at Konigsberg last week that "Christianity was not born of Jewry but out of a fight against it." On the other hand he was not ready to paganize Protestantism, seemed to wish to straddle that issue. "We cannot be a conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept...
German newspapers were compelled to suppress all but the barest news of the Church crisis and Reichsbischof Müller flatly refused to discuss it with U. S. correspondents. "Tell American churchgoers," said he, "that in our Church the Gospel will naturally remain as a foundation on which the message of Christ will rest." Meanwhile Storm Troops descended on the parishes of many non-Nazi pastors, herded several off to prison camps...