GERMAN CHURCH DISPUTE
“ Many of the clergy in Germany perceived the true character of the Totalitarian State long before the politicians and economists did,” said Mr F, A. Voight, in a recent broadcast talk. “Before it was established by the Nazis in Germany 21 pastors of Altona. near Hamburg, issued a warning to the German people. This warning contains the following words: ‘Whoever places the Church and her message under the influence of a political power converts that power into a religion hostile to Christianity.. . , We reject every deification of the State. If the civil authority claims dominion over the human conscience, it thereby becomes anti-Christian. . . This warning was printed and circulated in the form of a long manifesto more than four years ago. It has passed from hand to hand ever since, and has been eagerly read. If we read it now. we are bound to admire the prophetic insight of those few pastors of Northern Germany: their words contain the very essence of all that has happened since.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23219, 17 June 1937, Page 18
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