State and Church in Germany The German Church conflict increases
both in intensity and in complication, and it may well have repercussions outside the Reich, for example in the Saar with its pre- dominantly Roman Catholic population. While the Primate of the Protestant Church shows no signs of yielding, and is beginning to retaliate openly against the dissident pastors, he is now faced by a breach in the ranks of his own German Christian supporters. The full strength of the section which has just repudiated his leadership has still to be revealed, but it may well be sufficient to make his position finally untenable. And in the meantime the tension between Roman Catholics and the Nazi authorities in Bavaria is growing daily. The whole concordat with the Vatican is in peril and while both the hostile Catholics and the hostile Protestants declare themselves good Nazis they are determined to resist -State domination, and it is far- from certain that victory in the struggle will go to the State.
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