A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRET POLICE
Coblenz,
June 21st, 1937.
To Assistant Preacher Herrn Ernst Loh, Horchheim bei Koblenz, Friedrichstrasse 15.
" A fine of 5o R.M., or alternatively imprisonment for to days, is hereby imposed upon you on account of infringement by you of Iwar. t of the Regulation 1.4.35, issued by the President of the Rhine Provinces for the combating of the abuse of theological debate and of offences against the fundamental principles of the National Socialist movement . . .
In your sermon of May 3oth, 1937, held in the Evangelical Church of Mayen, you declared the principle—' Serve your people, and you serve God ' to be untrue. You said that first of all one must serve God, and then one may also serve the people. Evidence : Your confession when questioned on June 11th, 1937."
(Signed) Dr. NOCKEMANN.
I understand that this document has been published, or at any rate made widely known, in Germany, so no harm is likely to come to anyone from its reproduction here.
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