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Pooping bravely away at a Sousa march, a brass band marched down the Potsdamerstrasse last week toward Berlin's great Sportpalast. A marching band is the commonest occurrence in Nazi Germany, but at the sight of this one Berliners stopped, gaped, cheered. The Blatz Post American Legion Band of Milwaukee was the first to march behind the U. S. flag in Berlin since the War. When the bandsmen, with black crepe on their arms in honor of President von Hindenburg, reached the Sportpalast, largest auditorium in the city, 15,000 ticket holders shouted "hoch" and gave the Nazi salute...
...Joachim Hossenfelder who looks in his Nazi uniform anything but a bishop. He remained last week Bishop of Brandenburg, despite charges that he seeks to paganize the Church. He it was who sat approvingly through a speech by one of his subordinates who in Berlin's vast Sportpalast called for scrapping of the Old Testament on the ground, among others, that much of it was written by "Jewish pimps...
Berlin's vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the "German Christians," Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the super-Nazification of the Church. Their presiding officer was brisk, sleek, pomaded young Rev. Joachim Hossenfelder. Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg. Their prime hot-head was one Dr. Reinhold Krause. Meeting a few days after the 450th birthday of their Church's founder, Martin Luther, they proceeded to juggle ecclesiastical dynamite. According to Nazi Pastor Krause, German Protestantism needed a "second Reformation." He submitted three...
...Evangelical Church. Three influential non-Nazi pastors even demanded a rescinding of the rule against "non-Aryans" in the Church. The sounds of fury and chaos rose to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller. As the personal friend and henchman of Chancellor Hitler, he might have been expected to side with the Sportpalast "reformers." Instead, caught by the news from Berlin while traveling in southern Germany, he sent a telegram of strong reproof: "I speak only as leader of the Church who is responsible for the preservation of the creed before God. ... It is said, though I can hardly believe it, that...
...Potsdam! Just what kind of a man he is Chancellor Adolf Hitler amply revealed in his final Berlin campaign speech, cheered almost continuously by 20,000 frenzied Nazis packed into the vast Sportpalast. Lumping Communism. Democracy and Socialism under one head, Orator Hitler did his best to cut it off. ''Marxism proceeds on the assumption of all being equal!" he roared. "As a corollary to this principle Democracy also postulates that not only must nations be appraised as equal in quality but that individuals also must not be differentiated. This obviously leads to the throttling of individual capacity...