OATH TO HITLER
PASTORS' RESISTANCE LETTER TO NAZI LEADER 5 (Received May 10, 9.40 a.m.) BERLIN, May 9. Faced with a Nazi order that pastors of the Evangelical Church must take the oath to Herr Hitler or be dismissed, Dr. Mueller, on behalf of the Confessional or opposition pastors ot Prussia, has sent a letter to Dr. Werner, the Nazi Commissioner for the - Church in Prussia, stating: "We have reason to believe that you are tryingto introduce to the Church regulationsapplying to State officials. It is our duty to fight this attempt to change ecclesiastical * law." . In conclusion, Dr. Mueller states that Confessional pastors have been in* structed to take the oath to Herr Hitler only if simultaneously they declare they are still bound by their ordination oath. This means that if, as is inevitable, the two oaths clash the oath to Herr Hitler will take second place.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 11
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148OATH TO HITLER Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 11
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