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...meeting of the German People's Church. He reported it noisy, enthusiastic, a theological free-for-all. Its members sang the Horst Wessel song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien," his hearers again shouted "Oranienburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nazis v. Jesus Christ | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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