NAZIS AND CHURCH
Gestapo .Active Among Congregations
A thousand Protestant clitirclies in country villages all over north Germany .-ire without clergy. I oltng curates belonging to the opposition movement have been forbidden to officiate. But till- services will go onlaymen will lake lheir places.
.Millions <>l church-goers in Germany resent Hie organized attempt being imide to Nazit’y lheir church and Imvi supported tile curates in their stand for independence. But now they are forbidden to contribute to the support of their banned eurates.
Thirty vicars have been deprived of lheir living for daring to defy Nazi decrees prescribing what they should preach from the pulpit. "I learn" i writes Hie "Sunday ('lironicle" Berlin correspondent) "that plainclothes members of the dread Gestapo (German Secret Police) are being 'planted' ninolig the congregations.
"Their task is to take notes of sermons and to see whether collections tire taken for purposes forbidden by tin? Nazi authorities."
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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152NAZIS AND CHURCH Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)
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