"The Reverend Martin Niemoeller had personally welcomed the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933. In that year his aut…"

"You suppose that Christianity is oppressed in Germany and that there is a rule by force and secret trial. Though this…"

"The Confessional Church as a whole did not offer resistance in the political sense, with the intent of bringing down …"

"He called on the people to show a sense of responsibility towards their fellow-men, he abjured them not to forget the…"

"Our people are trying to break the bond set by God. That is human conceit rising against God. In this connection we m…"

"The oppression is growing, and anyone who has had to submit to the Tempter's machine-gun fire during this last week t…"

"We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No mor…"

"No honest man or woman in Germany feels responsible for these things. Good Germans took Nazism as a new religion. The…"

"Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten e…"

"In Erlangen, for instance, in January 1946 he spoke of meeting a German Jew who had lost everything — parents, brothe…"