ARREST OF GERMAN CHURCH LEADER
NAZIS ALLEGE MISUSE OF PULPIT
BERLIN, July 1. Dr. Martin Niemoller, leader of the Confessional movement against the "Nazi.: :ation" of the Evangelical Church, has been arrested on a charge of announcing from the pulpit the names of members of his congregation who seceded from the Church, such an announcement being forbidden by the Minister for the Interior (Dr. Wilhelm Frick). Dr. Niemoller, preaching on June 27, said that 48 members of the Confessional movement had been recently arrested. A communique confirming the arrest of Dr. Niemoller states: "He has for a long time used Divine service and other Church activities to deliver provocative speeches and to calumniate leading persons of the State and the Nazi Party, to spread untrue reports about church conditions in Germany and to incite to the disobedience of laws and decrees."
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22135, 3 July 1937, Page 15
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