NIEMOELLER & RIBBENTROP
REASONS FOR IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, January 13. One reason why Dr. Niemoeller, the German pastor, is now in Sachsenhausen concentration camp is that he refused to accept into his church by baptism a child of Herr von Ribbentrop. . This was disclosed this week at Blackheath, London, by the Rev. L Hildebrandt, who ministered for 3i years in Pastor Niemoeller's parish. “Herr von Ribbentrop had been a member of. ou.r church, but had leit, Mr Hildebrandt said. “Because of this, Pastor Niemoeller could not see hit way clear, according to the ‘German Church teaching, to baptise his child. Herr von Ribbentrop made a personal '■’v'pal, but the pastor would not relax/* Jjr Hildebrandt disclosed another reason for Pastor Niemoeller’s incarceration. ‘General Ludendorff and his wife wanted to introduce a new religion, which was non-Aryan and non-, Jewish. The pastor refused to worship man and not God.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1940, Page 9
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