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...patients in his diocese had been taken away from asylums and put to death. He charged that the Ten Commandments were being violated with the knowledge and consent of all the national leaders-the first commandment by idolatry the fourth by the actions of the Hitler youth on the Sabbath, the seventh by authorities who encouraged soldiers to become "war fathers," the eighth by Naz leaders who were using their positions to enrich themselves personally...
...novel. . . ." Three days later he made another jotting: "Trouble in Spain. . . ." Before the "trouble in Spain" was over, Shirer had finished his novel, changed jobs (from Universal to Columbia Broadcasting System), moved to Vienna. There he made another casual entry in his diary: "Much tension here this Sabbath. Schuschnigg has had a secret meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden. ..." Next thing Shirer knew the Nazis were in Vienna...
...before their Government got still tougher. In so doing they merged 42 denominations into one, leaving out only the Roman Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Episcopalians (who refused to recognize the validity of the ministerial orders of the other denominations) and the Seventh-Day Adventists (who held out for a Saturday Sabbath...
...Sunday when Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List's troops rolled into Greece and Yugoslavia, Berliners spent a normal wartime Sabbath. They strolled the streets, attended the cinema, watched Germany defeat Hungary at soccer, went to the races at Karlshorst. They bought extras, read the headlines, glanced at the official Nazi pronouncements, threw the papers away...
...Empire depended on the vote. The debate was over London theatricals. Londoners can get theatrical war relief at four plays and six revues but, for centuries past, London's Sundays have been theaterless. The House of Commons squarely faced the issue of whether to allow bomb-harassed Londoners Sabbath dramatics...