GERMAN WAR GUILT
CLERGY CONFESS
WEAKNESS DEPLORED
NAZI REGIME DENOUNCED (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. “We, with our people, know ourselves united, not only in the great company of suffering, but also in the solidarity of guilt,” stated a declaration which the British Control Commission announced represented the unanimous opinion of all churchmen present at last week’s German Evangelical Congress at Stuttgart.
“With great pain, wo say that, through us, endless suffering has been brougnt to many people and countries.” The signatories included Pastor Niemcller. The declaration added: “We have struggled for many years in the name of Jesus Christ against the spirit which found terrible expression in the National Socialist regime. “We accuse ourselves for not being more courageous, for not praying more faithfully and for not believing more joyously. We hope in God that, through the common services of the churches, the spirit of violence and revenge which again to-day wishes to become more powerful, may be brought under control throughout the world.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21854, 26 October 1945, Page 3
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