NO BIBLE IN BUCHENWALD
The entrance to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany bore' the inscription, "There is no God," according to Jacques-Louis Roulet, a Swiss clergyman who was confined there for six months. Beneath this slogan, Pastor Roulet revealed to a correspondent of the "New York Times," were caricatures of a priest, a Jew, and a "bourgeois" with the caption, "They are responsible." "Religious services were not allowed in the camp." he said,* "and Bibles and all religious articles were taken from new arrivals. My companions and I used to offer prayers aloud during our three-day journey in a sealed car from Belfort, France, to Weimar. We wanted to continue the custom on our first day in Buchenwald, but an old inmate told us: 'If you start that here, you'll be hanged.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 60, 8 September 1945, Page 9
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133NO BIBLE IN BUCHENWALD Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 60, 8 September 1945, Page 9
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