Attached is a news report concerning the Nazi struggle to contain and eradicate the spread of Christianity throughout Austria and Germany.
On a similar note: on the 23rd page of the November 29, 1941 issue of PATHFINDER MAGAZINE it was reported that in Berlin, the Dean of St. Hedwig’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Reverend Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875 – 1943), was imprisoned by the Gestapo for offering prayers for the Jews. While protesting the Nazi euthanasia policies a year later he was arrested once more and died while in transit to the concentration camp at Dachau, Poland.
Click here to read about the Nazi efforts to change the German churches into fascist tools.
Click here to read an article about Martin Niemöller and his battle to protect the Protestant churches from the Third Reich.
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