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GERMANY: Church Militant

Sleepy old Wittenberg—the town of Martin Luther who made it the cradle of the Reformation—snapped to attention last week at a new Nazi wonder.

Tramp, tramp, tramp 150 Saxon theological students marched into town, brown uniformed and carrying complete Army equipment, even campaign knapsacks. Wags called them "God's New Storm Troops." Newly enrolled, they had been sent by onetime Corporal Adolf Hitler as a guard of honor for his leather-lunged friend, onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr....

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