Word: rottenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole German hierarchy, had deliberately abstained from voting in last month's plebiscite. That one, Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that...
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