NAZI TYRANNY
THREAT TO TEN THOUSAND PASTORS MUST SWEAR LOYALTY TO HITLER UNDER PENALTY OF DISMISSAL. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. LONDON, May 17. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that 10,000 pastors of the Protestant Church must decide before May 31 between dismissal or taking the oath of loyalty to Herr Hitler and obedience to the laws of the State as prescribed for civil servants. This is involving grave conflict of conscience and interest among the pastors of the Confessional movement because, by taking the oath, they would be committed to unreserved obedience to the Church authority. They do not recognise the decree issued by Dr Werner, the State-appoint-ed head of the Evangelical Church under orders from the Ministry for Church Affairs. The Confessional pastors told Herr Hitler that they did not object to taking the oath to the civil authority, but that the church authority was not entitled to demand the political oath. This attitude in 1934 enabled them to make a successful resistance to a similar order.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1938, Page 7
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170NAZI TYRANNY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1938, Page 7
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