NAZIS AND CHURCH
GESTAPO ACTIVE AMONG CONGREGATIONS A thousand Protestant churches in country villages all over north Germany are without clergy. Young curates belonging to the opposition movement have been forbidden to officiate. But the services will go onlaymen will take their places. Millions of church-goers in Germany resent the organised attempt being made to Nazify their church and have supported the curates in their stand for independence. But now they are forbidden to contribute to the support of their banned curates. Thirty vicars have been deprived of their living for daring to defy Nezi decrees prescribing what they should preach from their pulpit. "I learn” < writes the "Sunday Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent) “that plainclothes members of the dread Gestapo <German Police' are being ‘planted’ among the congregations. “Their task is to take notes of sermons and to see whether Collections are taken for purposes forbidden by the Nazi authorities."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21449, 13 September 1939, Page 14
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