Confessing Church
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The Confessing Church was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi
Synodal elections 1933: German Christians and Confessing Church campaigners in Berlin
Meeting house of the Evangelical Congregation, Dahlem, Berlin
Plaque commemorating the second Reich Synod of Confession on the outside wall of the meeting house
Martin Niemöller
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Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He opposed the Nazi regime during the late 1930s, and was sent to a concentration camp for his affiliation with the
Confessing Church
…clergy of Jewish descent and even clergy married to non-Aryans. The Aryan Paragraph created a furor among some of the clergy. Under the leadership of Martin Niemöller, the Pastors' Emergency League (Pfarrernotbund) was formed, presumably for the purpose of assisting clergy of Jewish descent, but the League soon evolved…
Niemöller at St. James' Church, The Hague in 1952
Niemöller as an officer of the Imperial German Navy, 1917