THE CHURCH IN PRUSSIA
PASTORS RESENT NEW NAZI ORDER MUST TAKE OATH TO HERR HITLER Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, May 9. (Received May 10, at 10 a.m.) 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 in Prussia, has sent a letter to Dr Werner, the Nazi Commissioner for the Church in Prussia, saying: “We have reason ter believe that you are trying to introduce to the church regulations applying to State officials. It is our duty to fight this attempt to change the church ecclesiastical law.” Dr Mueller, in conclusion, states that confessional pastors have been instructed to take the oath to Herr Hitler only if simultaneously they declare that they are still bound to their ordination oath. This means if, as is inevitable, the two oaths clash, the oath to Herr Hitler will take second place.
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 9
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