SIR,—Complying with the request made by Dr. Charles Singer in
The Spectator of June 8th, I enclose an extract from a protest which the Confessional Church addressed to Hitler. This is only one example— others could be quoted—which proves that leaders of the Confessional Church did not limit their interests to purely internal Church affairs, but raised their voice in protest against Nazi atrocities as such.
AS far as we know, large sections of the Confessional Church have become increasingly conscious of this responibility in the course of the years, and in connection with the attempt made last July of eliminating the Hitler regime Confessional leaders have played a part, and some of them have paid for it with their lives (names could be given). Others were imprisoned, and have not yet been found.
May I add in reply to Peter Wiener's letter, that Archbishop Temple very carefully examined documents relating to the activities of the Con- fessional Church in the political field, and later on, in St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, publicly confessed that he was mistaken when he assumed that the opposition of the Congressional Church to the Nazi regime was limited to purely ecclesiastical matters.—Yours truly, [The protest, which is too long for quotation here, begins with the words, "When blood, race, nationality and honour receive here the rank of eternal values, the Evangelical Christian is compelled by the First Commandment to reject this estimate," and continues throughout in the same sense.—En., The Spectator.]
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