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Chapter 5: Another Border Incident. George Elser, 36, posing as a master mechanic from Württemberg, walked up to a point 15 yards from the Swiss border, where, when confronted by Nazi guards, he said he was looking for a Swiss friend. He had about his person a perfectly valid passport, but also 15 sketches and maps of munitions depots and factories, as well as statistics of munitions deliveries, parts of gun mechanisms, and a postcard of Bürgerbräu Keller. He said he wanted to send the postcard to his father. He was arrested...
Meanwhile, in Germany last week it became known that one bishop, out of the 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...
Last week, with an eye to the visiting foreign-Germans, Stuttgart wore her party dress as all Nazi departments cooperated to give the town an air of plenty. Juicy hams, butter, thick Württemberg sausage spread themselves in butcher-shop windows. The rigid foreign exchange decrees of Reichsbanker Schacht were tossed aside to allow foreign toilet articles and cosmetics to be stocked by Stuttgart drugstores...
...visiting Germans drove to the nearby Black Forest, others gazed at Stuttgart's modernistic buildings, Bishop Theophil Würm-one of the Lutheran signers of a declaration drafted last week against Nazi religious aims-delivered a fighting sermon to his usual Sunday congregation in the Württemberg capital...
...soon as the Olympic Games were over last year. Dictator Hitler got down in earnest to a rigorous anti-Catholic campaign. Catholic confessional schools were suppressed at Württemberg, in the Saar, in the Palatinate, and a State Youth Law suppressed surviving Catholic Youth organizations by ordering all children to join the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth...