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"To say that this is a good book is to say nothing. To advise one to read it for entertainment is sacrilege. To urge its reading for information, or even for inspiration, is to reveal a lack of insight. This book is a revelation of hell on earth, of the existence of a malignant wickedness and evil in this world. If any man can read it and not be stirred to his depths, it is because he has no depths." --Norman Vincent Peale, from the forewordFirst published in 1942, Leo Stein's account of the imprisonment of Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoeller recounts face-to-face discussions with Hitler. Martin Niemoeller was ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1924. He was a hero during World War I, a German naval lieutenant and U-boat commander. He was also one of the earliest and most vocal critics of Nazism. As the Third Reich moved toward the obliteration of the Christian Church, Niemoeller, along with other pastors, formed the Pastors Emergency League to protect the church and its ministers from imprisonment and destruction. Pastor Niemoellers was one of the early, stentorian calls for overseas aid, with a major manifesto appearing in an issue of Time magazine just prior to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Niemoeller was protected until 1937, when he was found guilty of treason. He was sent for "re-education" and spent the remainder of World War II at Sachsenhausen, Mobait, and Dachau. He lived a life of distinction, serving as president of the World Council of Churches and actively speaking out against nuclear armament and military alliances until his death at age ninety-two in 1984. Leo Stein served as a doctor of jurisprudence and church law and was teaching at the University of Berlin when he was arrested and summarily imprisoned for crimes of treason, his book on the Russian Revolution held as the sole "evidence" against him. This book was written following his emigration to the United States.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- FOREWORD
- PUBLISHER'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- I: MY MEETING WITH NIEMOELLER
- II: ARRESTED BY THE GESTAPO
- III: MY ARRIVAL AT MOABIT PRISON
- IV: NIEMOELLER AT MOABIT
- V: NIEMOELLER MEETS HITLER
- VI: HITLER, "THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND"
- VII: NIEMOELLER'S COURAGE IN PRISON
- VIII: FRIEND OF THE FRIENDLESS
- IX: NIEMOELLER ON ANTI-SEMITISM
- X: THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
- XI: NIEMOELLER VIEWS THE NAZI PHILOSOPHY
- XII: NIEMOELLER ON THE NAZI CREED
- XIII: RELIGION IS NOT DEAD IN GERMANY
- XIV: IN THE HANDS OF THE GESTAPO
- XV: DEATH HITLER'S ONLY MERCY
- XVI: TOGETHER AT SACHSENHAUSEN
- XVII: WOULD HITLER HAVE LAUGHED?
- XVIII: "TELL THE WORLD"—NIEMOELLER
- APPENDIX A: HITLER ON RELIGION: EXCERPT FROM THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION
- APPENDIX B: OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NAZI WAR ON RELIGION BY WILLIAM DONOVAN, DIRECTOR OF THE OSS