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...began touring Nazi Germany last week by meeting onetime Crown Prince Wilhelm, now an aging fop. Later in the week they were invited to lunch by one of Germany's new rulers, Air Minister and Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who had just returned from Reichsführer Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat where he is only occasionally invited. The Air Minister introduced the airman to his wife, onetime Cinemactress Emmy Sonnemann, and to the latest of his series of lion cubs, each of which is returned to the zoo when it grows...
When at the Olympic games opening (see p. 40) Adolf Hitler and Colonel Lindbergh were seated within a few feet of one another and the Reichsführer ignored the airman, it was clear that Hitler intended to be the first Head-of-State to omit to receive Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The next day Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh flew to Denmark...
...Hearing that the rebellious pastors of the German Evangelical [Lutheran] Church plan to print and circulate privately their unanswered protest to the Reichsführer against practically everything going on in Nazi Germany (TIME, July 27), the Gestapo (secret police) raided Confessional Synod offices, lugged off typewriters, mimeograph and printing machines...
...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...
Last week, their letter still unanswered, the pastors let it be known that if the Reichsführer did not reply within two more weeks, they would publish their letter and circulate it secretly among the Godfearing. Since Germany wants no overt trouble with its own churchmen while the Olympic games are going on, the pastors had five more weeks of grace...