Word: rttembergers
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...Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...
...General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff, that eccentric old soldier refused it on the ground that such an honor was possible only in wartime and from the hand of a Sovereign. Germany's only other surviving field marshals are General August von Mackensen, Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria...
...independent Lutheran state churches of Germany, only two up to last week still held out against the whip-snapping of Adolf Hitler's bullet-headed Realm Bishop Ludwig Müller (TIME, Oct 1 et ante). This bold pair were the provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early last week and Bishop Wurm, suspended last month, was permanently removed from office, placed under arrest in his home. That left only Bavaria...
...ller recited the Apostles' Creed, mentioned 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...
...ller summoned the Evangelical National Synod to meet in Berlin, keeping this summons out of the Press. The Synod is virtually hand-picked but some opposition flared. "Eight hundred pastors have already been suspended for opposing the present Church regime!'' cried Church Councilor Meisel, representing Bishop Wurm of Württemberg. "Where is this...