Golden Age, October 9, 1935
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THE HOLY(?) ROMAN EMPIRE REVIVED
THE DEVIL’S REAL TARGET
GOD’S ORGANIZATION
“WHAT IS FASCISM?” (Part 3)
MAKING AMERICA FASCIST
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October 9, 1935 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Cruelty to the Aged 4
“Heil Hitler”, or Get Fired 4
Employment for Young 13
Conscription of Women 13
Priests as Labor Arbitrators 26
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
In an Unnamed Prison 4
Infamous Secret Courts 5
What Nazism Has Done to Man 5
Mistreatment of Fleshly Israel 6
The Jews of Hesse, Germany 6
THE DEVIL’S REAL TARGET—
Jehovah’s Witnesses 7
A Word to the New York Times 8
Papal Control of News 8
Extract from German Golden Age 9
“Und Drei Kleine Kinder” 11
NAZI “EDUCATION” 12
Slop for Schoolteachers 12
History Distorted 12
NAZI SOCIAL LIFE 13
A Holiday in Berlin 13
One Year of the Nazi Terror 13
GOD’S ORGANIZATION 17
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Holy (?) Roman Empire Revived 3
Nazi Headquarters at Munich 3
Demonstrations a la Coupon 3
Hitler Catholic at Heart 3
How Hitler Was Financed 4
Savagery Toward Communists 13
Refugees in Holland and Denmark 13
“WHAT IS FASCISM?” (Part 3) 18
MAKING AMERICA FASCIST 24
Proposed R.C. Fascist Dictatorship 24
O’Connell Wants Radio Censorship 24
“Foreign Power” After the Press 25
Jesuit Delaware Corporations 25
Wholesale Murder of Protestants 25
Unwitting Servants of Papacy 26
Jesuits Crowed Too Soon 26
HOME AND HEALTH
Treatment of Hiccoughs and Burns 30
How the Ulcers Were Disposed Of 30
The Regular Daily Dose of Poison 30
A Couple of Recipes from Florida 30
An Effective Laxative 30
On War Path in New Hampshire 31
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
The German Bible—Mein Kampf 4
Jailed for Belief in Kingdom of God 8
In the Fiery Furnace 10
THE DEVIL’S PAGAN WING 14
Analysis of Hitler Philosophy 14
Proclaiming Hitler as Christ 14
Bitter Cries of Protestants 14
Growth of Paganism 15
Most Autocratic Institution 23
OBEDIENCE LIGHTENS BURDENS 27
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The Golden Age
Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 9, 1935 Number 419
The Holy(?) Roman Empire Revived
A GLANCE AT THE PRESENT HYPOCRITICAL ALLIANCE OF RATTI AND HITLER, ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND PAGANISM, BY WHICH ALL LIBERTY AND TRUTH HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN GERMANY, AS DISCLOSED IN THE NEWS. "AND I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS, AS IT WERE WOUNDED TO DEATH; AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED: AND ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST."—REVELATION 13:3; SEE "LIGHT", BOOK ONE, PAGES 269-275.
First Signs of Weakness
HITLER'S first signs of weakness are in the fact that in the building of the new Nazi headquarters in Munich the roof was made eight feet thick, so as to be as nearly bombproof as possible, while beneath are eighteen bombproof cellars each accommodating sixty persons. Also, these buildings are connected with others by subterranean passages thirty-two feet beneath the street. Extreme care for one's person, and efforts to forestall death by violence, are signs of mental weakness, if not insanity. After the death of Dowie his house at Zion City, Ill., was found to be an arsenal similar to the Hitler castle at Munich, only not so extensive.
Herald Probably Has It Right
THE London Herald claims that the Nazis were out of funds and in such desperate circumstances that Hitler was threatening suicide; then Hitler learned that the Junker aristocrats of Germany, of whom Hindenburg was one, had plundered the public funds in a most outrageous way; the Nazi organization forcibly suppressed those who were trying to get the facts before the public, and in this way gained control of Hindenburg and of Germany.
Hitler Paid the Bill
A DISPATCH from the London News Chronicle states that the Hitler government paid the traveling expenses both ways of 350 Saarlanders from the United States and South America who returned home to vote for the return of the Saar to Germany.
Nazi Headquarters at Munich
THE Nazi headquarters at Munich are not built on anything as substantial as sand. They are built on swamp land, which, until but very recently, it was thought could not hold the weight of a public building. The Nazis put down 1,780 concrete pillars, however, by keeping the pumps working night and day, and they expect their building to stand. It is seven stories in height; appropriately, four of these stories are below ground. There, of course, the Nazis will have their treasury and seek to hide from the face of Almighty God in Armageddon. But all in vain.
Demonstrations a la Coupon
GERMAN efficiency has provided the world with one form of demonstration that is new. When the government wishes a demonstration held in any or all of its 16,000 centers throughout Germany every brain and manual worker is provided with a form which has to be signed and handed to a Nazi official before leaving the alleged "spontaneous" demonstration, and woe betide any worker that fails to show up.
Hitler Still a Catholic at Heart
ADOLF HITLER, though nominally a renegade Catholic, is still a Catholic at heart. One of his most trusted aides, Helmuth Brueckner, Nazi regional leader for Silesia, and governor of that province, was summarily ousted from both positions and expelled from the Nazi party for referring to the priests as sensitive old men that belong in the church and not on the street.
In an Unnamed Prison
IN AN unnamed prison in Germany, according to the Manchester Guardian, a prisoner, a youthful workman, had been subjected to physical torments extended over several weeks. “Then he was informed that his aged mother had received permission to visit him, but when she arrived she was not allowed to see him, although she had obtained the permit with the greatest difficulty and lived many hours’ journey from the prison. She was taken into a room where her son could not see her but could hear all that was said. She was cross-examined for several hours on end on her son’s political activities, and told that she would be detained in the prison herself if her son did not reveal everything, and if she did not tell the police what they wanted to know she would not be allowed to see her son at all. Then she was told that so severe a punishment awaited her son that she would not live to see him a free man again. But both mother and son remained constant in their refusal to betray anyone or anything under these menaces.” The Guardian stated that such methods are in common use in Germany. It is plain that the Nazis are demonized, and retain nothing of manhood to which an appeal can be made.
Reds and Catholics May Fight Nazis
AT THE seventh congress of the Third International, in Moscow, the proposition was made that the Reds and Catholics unite in a fight in Germany against the Nazis. That is probably what will happen, with the expected result that after the Reds and Nazis have destroyed each other the Catholics will have everything to themselves. In other words, the Roman Hierarchy is perfectly willing to back a fight between these two organizations, provided it can rule the roost thereafter.
Cruelty to the Aged
Mr. Sam Hall, leader of the Power Workers’ Group, in an address to the Transport and General Workers Union, held at the Isle of Man, reported that he had come in personal contact with the Nazi regime in Germany and that “men over 70 are expected to go through the same exercises as men of 20, and when they are no longer able to stand they are kicked up again and ordered to go on”. The measure of a people’s civilization is best determined by its treatment of the aged and helpless.
The German Bible—Mein Kampf
ADVERTISEMENTS carried in German papers show that Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (My Fight) has reached a total printing of 1,820,000 copies. That is nothing at all. In the Brooklyn factory alone 5,620,000 copies have been printed of Judge Rutherford’s book The Harp of God, 3,403,500 of Deliverance, 2,774,000 of Creation, 2,058,000 of Reconciliation, 2,495,000 of Government, and ten other clothbound books of over 1,000,000 each. The printing of booklets has literally run into the hundreds of millions. Of the last booklet, on “Government”, 5,000,000 were printed in the first edition. Hitler thinks he is a great man; but when his bubble bursts and the people look for the place where it was, they will find nothing but a small hole in the ground.
Had to “Heil Hitler” or Get Fired
AT Berlin, on May Day, every worker in the city had to parade to the Tempelhof Field and rejoice before Hitler or else lose his job. The only exceptions allowed were expectant mothers and women over 40. Men had to wear long blue trousers, black shoes, white shirts, black ties and blue peaked caps. Women had to wear blue skirts, white blouses and black ties. The marchers were 11 abreast, each row in charge of a Nazi under orders to inflict severe punishment on anybody that fell out of the ranks. What do you think about that, you Americans? Is that what you want in America? Well, it is what you will get, if the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is allowed to have its way.
How Hitler Was Financed
SAYS Upton Sinclair, of California: “More recently, five great German arms manufacturers contributed heavily to Hitler’s campaign funds. And the French-owned Skoda, Czechoslovakia’s great armament firm, donated millions of marks to Hitler’s campaign. These same Frenchmen also own newspapers that did more than any others to enrage France against Hitler, exhorting the people to build up the French defenses against the menace of rearming Germany, screaming, ‘Awake, La Patrie!’ But it was left to the Federal Laboratories of Pittsburgh to carry the art of double-dealing to high perfection; it sold gas bombs simultaneously to all antagonists in war-torn Cuba in 1933.” Treatment of Prisoners
THE Manchester Guardian, in its issue of May 10, tells of prisoners in Germany being struck so that the blood flows from ears and mouth; of a girl so severely beaten that she lost consciousness; of another girl of 18 who was kicked in the abdomen and also lost consciousness; of the special cell where the stench is unbearable, the window can be opened only an inch, there are only wooden planks upon which to sleep, there is a hot meal only once in three days; of a prisoner 20 years of age being in chains for two weeks, the bridge of his nose broken; of a prisoner being beaten in the face with a bunch of keys; of a prisoner having his eardrum broken; of women chained at night; of the arrest of old men and women and cripples; of two prisoners hitting back, and both being beaten to death. One good boxer, before he was beaten to death by weight of numbers, knocked three guards unconscious.
Unspeakable Dachau Prison Camp
THE Manchester Guardian gives details of the treatment of prisoners at the Dachau prison camp in Germany. Some of the cells are unheated throughout the winter, some are dark, and some have chains let into the walls. Prisoners are compelled to work at the double-quick. One so working was ordered to drop his load and run. He obeyed and did so and, when he ran, was shot twice on the pretext that he was trying to escape. This man, Hans Max Kohn, is a mass of scars. One of his fingers was completely severed by a blow. Some prisoners have been beaten until they have lost most of their teeth. Rather than lose its dividends and its grip on the throat of the people Big Business would gladly turn all mankind over to the Devil himself, as they have done in Germany.
What Nazism Has Done to the Common Man
ACCORDING to H. R. Knickerbocker, in Upton Sinclair’s National Epic News, in Germany today a citizen may be arrested without warrant and held twenty months in prison without benefit of attorney; he may be tried by a Nazi court of laymen, from whose decisions there is no appeal; his dwelling may be searched at any time without a warrant; his property may be confiscated; his mail may be opened and his telegrams read; he may not hold an assembly, or form an organization, or practice freedom of speech.
Infamous Secret Courts
REFERRING to Germany’s secret courts which in recent months have sentenced an unknown number of persons to death and penal servitude, the Manchester Guardian says: “The amended penal law makes an extraordinarily wide range of offenses treasonable. Among those punishable by death are anti-Government propaganda by means of printed matter, pictures, or gramophone records.” No information is obtainable as to the names of persons beheaded, hanged, shot or otherwise disposed of. It is known that some were encouraged to poison themselves. Big Business started and financed the Hitler régime—a foretaste of their program for America.
The Uses of a Servile Police
SOME have wondered where the German police are when the Nazis conduct riots in various places. Information comes to hand to explain. There were Nazi assaults on innocent people in Munich; the police arrested the victims, to secure their safety. A photographer who attempted to take pictures of the rioters was arrested and taken to police headquarters. So much for the German police. Of what possible benefit to humankind are criminals in uniform? New Jersey’s citizens are interested.
Victims Must Pay for Custody
PERSONS imprisoned in German protective camps, and subsequently given their liberty without any charges being preferred against them, are being rendered bills for their care while in so-called “protective custody”. While they are in custody their heads are shaved.
Schoolboy of 19 Imprisoned
A SCHOOLBOY of Magdeburg, Germany, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for communist activities. The court has ordered that after he has served his two years (and he is now but 19) he be kept under special police supervision.
3,942 Nazi Murders
AT AN anti-Nazi conference held in New York city on June 30 it was claimed by a German refugee that the Nazis killed 3,942 since they assumed power. Of these, 212 men and women were decapitated. More than 300,000 are held in concentration camps.
Mistreatment of Fleshly Israel
The Jews of Hesse, Germany
(From the Manchester Guardian)
WE WERE prepared to find here and there a placard at the main gate of a farm property prohibiting Jews from entering on pain of bodily ill-treatment, but of these placards we saw not one or two, but hundreds. In the villages they are on almost every door; it is a matter of honor to flaunt them. Not to one of the peasants who go on Sunday in their splendid old peasant costumes to the church service does it occur that these placards are the coarsest revilings of the “Evangel” which they profess. Worse still is the warning that whole villages cry out in unison: “Jews are forbidden to enter the village.” Really this might fairly be brought before a magistrate for the restraint of what amounts to a breach of the peace. But nobody dreams of doing so. This brutal outlawry of the Jews has become a commonplace in Oberhessen—the Jews themselves no longer take umbrage at it.
They have worse things to endure. For how many Jewish families it is now an anxious moment when the father of the family lights the Sabbath lights. The window shutters are closed for safety, and in hundreds of cases stones rain upon them. Woe to anyone who ventures, not to protest—nobody any longer has the strength and the hardihood for that—but even to ask for some consideration to be shown. I know of a case in which a white-haired Jew, a man whose simple piety and warm humanity had earned him in the past the respect of the peasants among whom he lived, who begged for the uproar to be ended because his wife lay near to death. The reply came from a stone that struck him on the forehead amid a chorus of derision and obscenity.
She died. When he had buried his life companion the old Jew left everything as it stood, house and garden and all that was in them; his possessions had become worthless to him. He collected those few things that his heart still clung to, a few trifles of no interest to anybody else, closed the shutters over his windows, and walked out of the village—jeered at by the young men, slandered by the twenty-year-old hero of this tragedy, greeted with silent sympathy by an old peasant woman. He has never returned.
There are hundreds of such exiles, wandering with the little remains of what they had, in Frankfort; they have abandoned their homes because they cannot endure the malevolence and the humiliations to which they were exposed in their village.
The program of the young heroes is to allow them no peace until they disappear. I was told of one young fellow of this type, employed in some town, who went home to his parents on Saturdays. At home he amused himself with a shotgun, aiming through a hole in the roof of his father’s house and breaking the windows of any Jews’ houses that he could reach. The whole village knows all about it, but there is no police interference with the young wretch. Evidently none of the injured parties dares to make a complaint.
Propaganda Against Jews
THE Judenkenner, Berlin anti-Semitic journal, has published the following infamous bulletin in various factories and offices in the city: “German National Comrade, do you know that the Jew violates your child, sullies your wife, sullies your sister, sullies your fiancee, murders your parents, steals your property, mocks your honor, scorns your morals, destroys your church, rots your culture, infects your race; that the Jew lies to you, cheats you, robs you, calls you cattle; that Jewish doctors slowly murder you, Jewish lawyers never help you get justice, Jewish food stores sell you rotten goods and Jewish butcher shops are dirtier than pigsties?” It is good that people that can say such things can still use the words justice, honor, morals and culture, even though they have not the slightest conception of what any of them means.
20,000 Jews Flee to Berlin
IN THE smaller cities of Germany the bigotry and prejudice and terror are even more pronounced than in the larger centers. As a consequence 20,000 Jews fled from the smaller cities to Berlin. Now the Hitler government will, so it is stated, send these unfortunates to the workhouses before returning them to the places whence they were expelled.
Object to Clean Jews
THE Nazis have expelled the Jews from swimming baths at Heringsdorf and Herwick, for, allegedly, insulting the Nazi state. It is not clear, on the one hand, why the Nazis object to clean Jews, nor is it easy to understand, on the other, how anybody could insult the Nazi state.
The Devil’s Real Target—Jehovah’s witnesses
THE following is a summary of an article in the Westdeutscher Beobachter of Cologne:
“NO ROOM FOR PEACE DISTURBERS!”
At a convention of the German Labor Front, in Annaberg, Saxony, Pg. Stiehler, a leader, said in an address to the leaders: “The German Labor Front cannot permit any longer that people who do not belong to this national organization remain employed. They disturb the labor peace in the works [mills, factories, mines, etc.], and it is the duty of the German Labor Front to see to it that such elements are kicked out.” He stated: “Such peace disturbers are especially from the camp of the International Bible Students, who are nothing else than a continuation of the Marxist parties, the traitors of country and people. People who refuse to join the Horst-Wessel-Song [a Nazi hero-worship song] and to join the salute to the leader [Hitler] or claim their faith does not permit them to join the German Labor Front, and by other acts of sabotage disturb the unity in the works, must be removed. The German Labor Front will not stand for any incitement against confessions or spreading of religious fanaticism.” The labor trustee [Pg. Stiehler] called on the leaders of the German Labor Front to no more merely talk, but henceforth to act.
The Copenhagen Aftenbladet has the following from its Berlin correspondent. Its Roman Catholic origin is self-evident:
“The German authorities have now banned the books of Judge Rutherford, the investigator, in Germany. They have been put on the black list and must not be published any more in the German Reich.
“The reason therefor stated is that an examination has shown that a close connection existed between an association of Bible students and Judge Rutherford’s movement ‘Friends of Jehovah’. All members of this association were Communists, and Nazi can only see in it a masked Marxist organization.
“However, there seems to be more reason to suppose that Rutherford has been banned on account of a sensational speech he delivered recently, wherein he declared that he was going to fight the pope, Mussolini, and Hitler with all his might, as he regards them to be enemies of the people.”
The Westdeutscher Beobachter, Cologne, which, because it is especially venomous against Jehovah’s witnesses, is most certainly under Roman Catholic influence, says, gleefully:
PRISON FOR “INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS”
The Lower Court in Seesen [Germany] sentenced five persons, who were actively engaged for the prohibited “Bible Students Association”, to prison terms ranging from three to six months.
Reporting the imprisonment of eight of Jehovah’s witnesses from Darmstadt another Cologne paper says truthfully, and should have said with bowed head: “The defendants refused to admit that there was anything criminal in their creed, since they wanted only to preach God’s Word and to serve mankind.”
The Limbacher Tageblatt und Anzeiger reports two brethren sentenced to nine and seven months respectively in prison, because, so said the judge, they spread “heresy”. The judge went on to say: “The Nazi movement has become great because of its faith in the Fuehrer [Hitler]; that he [Hitler] is very religious [he is a Roman Catholic] and does not place himself above God, as the defendants have claimed. The defendants should not claim that they have received greater enlightenment than other Christians. The Third Reich [Hitler’s government] must live on and must not tolerate the destruction of its foundations. Never before have the German people been as happy as at present, knowing that again there is a future for them.”
Both defendants refused to give the German salute, both admitted they had put the message of the Kingdom in the hands of the people, and both said that the Judgment Day is at hand, when the world of the Devil will be destroyed and there will be only one State. They were taken into custody when a meeting of “Bible Students” was raided by the police.
A brother writes from a place in Germany, via a neighboring country: “Throughout Germany hundreds of brethren have been arrested for celebrating together the memorial of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Even where only two or three assembled, and this in their own homes, they were espied upon by the secret police and betrayed by their neighbors.” At the time of writing these were still kept in prison without having had a trial and without being convicted; all together, there were, to his knowledge, about 1,500 of Jehovah’s witnesses behind prison bars. In one camp were eighty brethren. Each, as he entered, was given twenty-five hard blows with a stick; brutal punishments, such as the dark cell, follow for the least offense. Brethren were placed on a scaffold as a spectacle, and after the Nazis had made sport of them they threw them down from the scaffold. In one city ten are in prison, two of them sisters, one 72 and one 75 years of age. In one prison the brethren were sentenced to four, two and a half, and two years, respectively, for passing The Watchtower from one to another.
A German newspaper clipping shows that one brave brother was given one year in prison and three days extra because he refused to stand up when the court pronounced sentence. The account shows the Devil’s crowd are cut to the heart. It says:
The prosecution pointed out that the defendant sold Bibles from house to house in order to obtain an opportunity to spread his illegal propaganda for the International Bible Students Association, and this he did under the disguise of the name “Jehovah’s witness” in order to prevent interference with his work by the authorities. By his activity the defendant has placed before the people deep-cutting questions of conscience, although this was entirely unnecessary, and has robbed them of their faith and love toward state and God.
A Word to the New York Times
IN ITS issue of July 23 the New York Times, editorially, wonders at “the sudden fury of Hitler against the German Catholics”, and says: “Why he should have assumed his present violent attitude toward the Catholic church is not easily explicable. He had made his peace with the Vatican. He had agreed to a concordat by which the rights and privileges of Catholics in Germany were recognized and guaranteed.” Let the New York Times take note that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has no reason to fear what its clerk, Hitler, will do against it. All of the columns and columns of stuff about proposed attacks on the Catholics and Protestants was intended to cover up the fact that Germany at that very time had about 2,000 of Jehovah’s witnesses in prison, and was putting more of them in prison every day. On the day the New York Times editorial was published, Martin Harbeck, Jehovah’s witness, and one of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society’s European representatives, was then in Germany and in prison, and it was thought best by the Hierarchy, and its employee, Hitler, to set up a smoke screen for the Times and others.
Germany’s New Penal Code
IF THE recommendations of Judge Goertz, of Germany’s penal tribunal, are accepted, the new German penal code will prevent persons who have ever been imprisoned from ever engaging in any commercial activity, exercising paternal or civil rights, making wills or assigning property. Judge Goertz malignantly puts these measures forward as being a penalty more severe than death. And may Almighty God reward him according to his works.
Jailed for Belief in Kingdom of God
A DISPATCH from Berlin, dated July 28, starts off with the following statement:
“Two members of a Bible research sect have been jailed by Nazi authorities for their belief in the Kingdom of God. That was learned today along with the revelation of the first known imprisonment of a Catholic priest in Germany for statements from the pulpit.” Ponder that well. Consider that at that time 2,000 of Jehovah’s witnesses were in prison in Germany, the American newspapers have been filled for months with lurid stories of proposed attacks on Catholics and others, and now is the first instance of such attack. The news of the world is in the grip of the most unprincipled people in the world—the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. They are determined to prevent the people from knowing the facts.
Papal Control of News
THE New York Times of July 20 tells of twenty-two of Jehovah’s witnesses sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two months to three years, at Weimar, Germany, because they rejected military service and the Hitler salute. Their identity was concealed by the name “Bible Researchers”; the news about them was crammed into one inch in the center of a column-long article filled full of pure bunk as to what Hitler was about to do to Jews, Catholics and Protestants. It was sent out by the Associated Press and was clearly prepared under Roman Catholic Hierarchy control—all camouflage of the facts.
A Question for Ambassador Luther
AMBASSADOR HANS LUTHER, back from Germany, says it is “absurd to talk about religious intimidation in Germany” and that people “are allowed to worship in whatever church they choose”. Then how about the fact that some 2,000 of Jehovah’s witnesses are in prison in Germany, and they are not allowed any liberties in the land whatever? Ambassadors should tell the truth first, and make their explanations in accord therewith. The whole German campaign is a put-up job by a Roman Catholic dictator, the real object being to put the pope back in power in that land, and crush out Jehovah’s witnesses, and all other truth-lovers.
Extract from German Golden Age
‘ON THE 16th of April, 1935, I was present at a trial in a small town in the Pfalz, Germany. A young lady, one of Jehovah’s witnesses, stood before the court. The prosecutor read, in substance, the following statement: “About a year ago the daughter of Mrs. K—— in U—— was murdered by a fiend. The parents of the murdered girl were deeply grieved and even contemplated suicide. When the defendant heard of it she called on Mrs. K—— to comfort her. While thus doing she was nabbed and arrested. This is her statement: ‘I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses, and am in duty bound to comfort mourners, according to the Scriptures. When I heard of the tragedy that befell family K—— I decided to visit and comfort them. I was there about once a week. Once I went to the cemetery with Mrs. K——; Mrs. K—— herself testified that the defendant spoke only kind and comforting words to her. Had she conversed about politics, as the prosecutor presumed, the visits would not have been welcome. The Bible only was discussed.’” In spite of this evidence the state prosecutor demanded a one-month jail sentence, for this reason: “The defendant wanted couple K—— to join the International Bible Students Association; she had success. If the couple had not been in poor circumstances contributions would have been invited. In this activity of the defendant I see a misdemeanor against the peace and safety of state and people, and seeing how the poison is penetrating the German people through such channels, I therefore demand a jail sentence of one month.” Now the defendant’s counsel had the word: “Among other things the prosecutor stated, ‘The whole crime of the defendant consisted of saving two people from suicide.’ This witness of Jehovah has done what no clergyman could do, and for that shall she be punished? Such people should be rewarded.” His plea for freedom for the defendant was granted. On the same day and before the same court nine of Jehovah’s witnesses were sentenced to fines of from 150 to 200 marks for the sole reason that they attended a meeting of Jehovah’s witnesses. In other words, they chose obedience to the divine command in regard to “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together” for studying the Bible. It was remarkable that in all cases the accusers, police officers, always admitted that Jehovah’s witnesses are quiet, diligent and industrious, against whom nothing can be objected except that they take the Bible seriously.’
In a Few Days, in a Single District
IN A few days, in a single district in Germany, the following occurred: The next day after the memorial of Jesus’ death two of Jehovah’s witnesses were taken into custody, on complaint of a clergyman, and that without any reason whatever; three were arrested while yet in their beds and were brought to concentration camp; three sisters were taken into custody for attending the memorial of the Savior’s death; six brethren were given sentences of three to six months for attending study meetings; six were arrested at the Memorial itself; similarly six others, in another place, were arrested; three brothers and two sisters were sentenced to three months each for confessing themselves Jehovah’s witnesses; a 70-year-old man was sentenced to two months in prison for reading a booklet with Biblical statements; in one town the housewives have received orders to notify the police at once when any of Jehovah’s witnesses receive friends in their home; the best worker on a certain job must forfeit his position because he refused to say “Heil Hitler”; seven brothers have been in a concentration camp four to six months, without trial, and deprived of legal advice; in another place six were condemned to prison and when the prison terms expired they were put in concentration camps; a brother in a concentration camp was told he would not be set free until Jehovah would fetch him thence at Armageddon. Two hundred actions against Jehovah’s witnesses are impending in the district, and similar conditions prevail throughout the whole of Germany. The country has gone entirely to the Devil.
What Kind of Country Is This?
AT Hanover, Germany, three men and four women were each sentenced to a fine of 200 marks or forty days in jail for gathering together and reading from the Bible. The court admitted a conviction that the defendants do not belong to inciters opposed to the state. At Hildesheim 13 persons were sentenced to from sixty days to four months in prison for meeting together April 17 to commemorate the Lord’s death.
Further Distressing Reports
REPORTS from Germany are that the persecutions there now beggar description. Men born in Germany are saying, “Today I am ashamed to be a German.” Hundreds of preachers who opposed the Neo-Paganism of the new German National Church were arrested, some of them as they stood in the pulpit. Jehovah’s witnesses in Germany have been proscribed at the instigation of the clergy. A regional service director disappeared completely, either imprisoned or foully murdered. A brother was dismissed from prison for no known reason except that his son-in-law is a member of the nobility and an ardent supporter of the Nazis. Women have cheerfully accepted prison sentences rather than compromise the name of Jehovah God. The work goes on, under great difficulties. A writer in a Nazi paper, Drehscheibe, quotes a page from The Crisis and then says: “The time is short. Jehovah is gathering His troops. In America sits His war minister, Judge Rutherford, a man with a very long and sharp pen. The army of fighters against Jehovah must become more and more numerous. We must get the start of Him by a preventive war.” At the conclusion of his article the writer last quoted said: “We shall meet again in the battlefield of Armageddon.” A brother at Gelsenkirchen, for writings found in his possession, allegedly entitled “A Witness of Jehovah”, and allegedly against State and “Christianity”, received seven months in jail; yet writings completely repudiating the Bible altogether find hearty acceptance in Nazidom. In H—— a girl, a daughter of one of Jehovah’s witnesses, wrote a letter to the state police declaring that her father had never had anything to do with politics and that the action of the police in sending him to prison was a persecution of Christians smacking of the Dark Ages. For this she was fined 25 marks or five days in jail. In the Mecklenburg district thirty of Jehovah’s witnesses were sent to prison for terms varying from eighteen months for Brother T—— to six months for all the others. The Hamburg papers said of these brethren: “As a community in our nation they had no right to live. Their alpha and omega is the Bible, according to which there is no fatherland on earth, and the word ‘Heil’ (Hail or Salvation) properly belongs only to Jehovah but never and in no wise to Adolf Hitler. They refused the Hitler salute; besides, they are devoted to pacifism, and they confess that in the case of war they would refuse war service. Who is not for us is against us.” Something like that is stated in the Bible. The prelude of the trial was that the public in the background refused to give the Hitler salute when the court entered, thereby identifying themselves as Jehovah’s witnesses, wherefore they were expelled offhand.
Jehovah’s witnesses in the Fiery Furnace
AN Associated Press dispatch from Berlin, dated June 18, says: “Secret police raided bookshops and newspaper stands today, confiscating all pamphlets by J. F. Rutherford, head of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Brooklyn, on the ground they contained treasonable charges. The Nazis are trying to wipe out the Society of Bible Researchers, explaining the religious society cannot be tolerated because it defies the Hitler dictatorship, acknowledging only the rule of God. In Darmstadt thirteen members of the Bible society, which is now forbidden, were sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for the distribution of treasonable propaganda.” In explanation of the foregoing it should be stated that all the names above used have reference to Jehovah’s witnesses, of whom J. F. Rutherford is one. It should also be explained that these innocent Christian people now falsely accused by the Roman Catholic and other clergy as conspiring against the German state are the very same people that were accused falsely, in 1918, of being pro-German. Judge Rutherford was one of those thus falsely accused, and was sentenced to eighty years in Atlanta Penitentiary. Strange how the Devil can use the clergy! In one land they try to lock a man up for life for being pro-German, and in another they would gladly kill him, if they could get the chance, because he is everything but pro-German. Oh well, Judas finally got all that was coming to him.
A Silly “Order” in Wurttemberg
THE Wurttemberg minister of the interior has issued an “order” forbidding the holding of public meetings and lectures organized by churches or religious associations “except when they take place within churches or are traditional institutions, such as processions and pilgrimages”. The object of that “order” is so plain that nobody but a fool would question it or have any respect for it. Go to it, Judas.
“Und Drei Kleine Kinder”
A LETTER just at hand tells of the murder of one of Jehovah’s witnesses in a German prison. The letter cannot be printed, because it would aid the devils in swastika to commit yet other outrages, but it is enough to break the heart of any man who has a heart to read the simple words “Er hat eine Frau und drei kleine Kinder”. May Jehovah, the true and loving and almighty God fulfill the imprecations of the Psalms upon the souls of these beasts that have insulted God by killing one of His witnesses and at the same time have deprived “three little children” of their father and caretaker. It is bad enough for the frau to be deprived of her life companion, but for the poor “drei kleine kinder”, the three little kids, all one can do is to cry for Armageddon to come soon. But meantime God may see to it that the little ones are safely hidden in the midst of the storm.
The Crime of Being a Christian
AT Barmen seven of Jehovah’s witnesses, five men and two women, were found guilty of assembling in the home of one of them, where the defendant Karl W—— read an excerpt of one of the prohibited magazines of the I.B.S.A. The prosecution admitted that the defendants had no aims hostile to the state. The reader was given six weeks, four were given four weeks each, and two were dismissed.
‘All the World Wondering’
AS POINTED out in Light, Book One, all the world is now literally wondering at the recovery of the “beast”, Germany, that received the deadly wound and has since been healed. (Revelation 13:3) Today Germany is first in the number of aircraft, in trained pilots and in factories for aircraft construction, and is now virtually able to challenge the whole world in the air. It is also first in devilishness.
Useless to Plead
THE newspapers of Britain contain numerous pleas for co-operation between America and Britain in the emergencies which the rearming of Germany have thrust upon the latter country. The papers are wasting their ink and paper and type. Britain will never realize how much she lost when she repudiated her debt and left American taxpayers to bear the brunt of the colossal burdens of the Madness of 1914-1918.
Veiling the Truth
A DISPATCH from Berlin, dated June 5, says: “Nine of a group of 28 members of a Biblical society in the Walderburg mountain district were sentenced to from one to six months’ imprisonment today, convicted of disobedience to the government and insulting Chancellor Hitler. The others were fined. Charges were based on pamphlets distributed by the Society, urging members to continue their forbidden meetings.” In this vague language is hidden away from the casual reader the great truth that Jehovah’s true and faithful witnesses in Germany are being hounded and thrown into prison, and thus having a most honored part with Christ Jesus, their Lord and Head, in the vindication of Jehovah’s name. When Hitler and his demonized minions have perished for ever, the names of these witnesses will shine with the glory of God.
Brutal Assaults on Children
A CORRESPONDENT in Germany says: “Children who refuse to say ‘Heil Hitler’ are being thrashed; my two children are among them. The boy had to remain home for three days because he was unable to sit, and the girl had to undergo medical treatment since last Saturday for effusion of blood of her right hand. Such things are committed in spite of the testimonies the teacher and the principal have received. There are some teachers who have remorse or pangs of conscience. Yet the great majority are shouting with the others, ‘Heil Hitler’—the most of them moved by fear of men. They do not know our God Jehovah, nor want to know Him, yet there are still a great multitude of people of good will. One teacher was recently given an immediate dismissal because she refused to chastise a child for refusal of the German salutation.”
Nazis Investigate Every Individual
VIKTOR LUTZE, commander of the Nazi storm troops, in an address at Muenster, Germany, July 6, said:
“We feel ourselves not alone responsible for the fate of the people as a whole, but investigate the life of every individual. Whoever feels that he cannot conform and must live his life independently will find he is biting on granite. That is good for both institutions and individuals. Whoever opposes us we will destroy, and whoever provokes us we will attack.” Nazi “Education”
Slop for Schoolteachers
IN AN address to a schoolteachers’ assembly at Heringsdorf, Germany, a Nazi spokesman named Godenschweger made the following declaration: “The basis of all German education must be the recognition that it was not Christianity that brought us morality, but it was the infiltration of German character that gave Christianity its permanent worth. The values represented in the German character, therefore, are the eternal values with which everything else must be compared and upon which all else must be constructed. Whoever is not ready to accept this truth refuses to take part in the rebirth of Germany and has spoken a death sentence upon his own soul.” Can you imagine the mental and moral condition of teachers of the young who would sit quietly and listen while an infinitely hopeless ass would bray like that?
And can you wonder, as a natural result, that, at Potsdam, a pupil brought a Bible to school and used it as a football during recess time, kicking it about the playground? The teacher in charge of the playground investigated, but did not interfere. And what will be the recompense to the German nation for meekly submitting to all these blasphemies and atrocities when Jehovah God rises up to the prey?
The Sausage Press
ALL the newspapers of Germany are now as much alike as the links in a string of sausages, and have about as much information in them. One of the latest fool Nazi laws is that publishers must prove pure “Aryan” descent back to the year 1800 or go out of business; also, their publications may not be owned or managed by individuals or companies representing denominational interests, and, unless they are Nazi papers, they may not be published in more than one place.
History Distorted
VIVIAN OGILVIE, in the New York Post, declares, as a result of interviews with German school girls, that they are deliberately mistaught history; as, that it was the Germans that taught the Romans civilization, instead of vice versa; that the Germans are the greatest and most gifted of peoples; that all other nations are barbarians trying to do them harm; that to be a German and to have devotion to Hitler is the end of all instruction.
What the Professors Say
GERMAN professors, like German judges, do as they are told. Hence it is of interest to note what some of the professors are saying. Professor J. Wilhelm Hauer, leader of the Germanic faith movement, has publicly repudiated the truth of Jesus’ statement, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Professor Hans Schemm, Bavarian minister of education, has described Adolf Hitler as “the greatest teacher of all times”. This professor of poppycock went on to say: “The fuehrer opened wide the cage of the past era of time, enabling the German eagle to stretch its wings again to the bright heights of eternity and freedom.” The capacity of Germany for making a fool of itself is infinite.
Students Suspended for Two Years
SEVERAL students have been suspended for two years from Heidelberg University, Germany, because they failed to listen to one of Hitler’s speeches while it was being broadcast, and because they dared discuss in a restaurant the method by which Hitler eats asparagus. This means that they cannot go on with their lessons anywhere for two years. Hitler youth and Nazi students have been ordered to resign from all fraternities, and it is believed that this ends the German fraternity system.
All Professors Must Be Nazis
IN GERMANY today all officials of every sort must be Nazis, the preachers and priests must in effect be Nazis, and now the proclamation has been made that all professors, lecturers and tutors must be Nazis. It seems incredible that the German people could go along with such a hopelessly idiotic program. They have meekly bowed to the voice of kings and emperors so long that they seem to have lost all independence and manhood.
The Toys of Nazidom
THE toys of the Nazi Germany are marvelously lifelike lead soldiers three inches high, perfect in their military details. Along with these the little boys and girls of the new Germany play with trenches, tanks, shell holes, liquid-fire guns. The season’s best seller in Munich was a new military Mother Goose.
Nazi Social Life
A Holiday in Berlin
VARIAN FRY, editor of The Living Age, wrote a report of a German holiday which he witnessed. On both sides of the street a crowd was lined up, forcing each car that came by to run the gauntlet. Every man or woman that looked like a Jew was taken out and beaten; he saw one man brutally kicked and spat upon as he lay helpless on the sidewalk. The police did nothing to interfere. Everybody seemed to be having a good time. It was Germany’s present civilization, a civilization without God and with the morals of the Devil. If the Olympic games are held in Germany next year no self-respecting American or Briton will attend. Who wants to visit a country managed by persons under demoniacal control?
Pharaoh Still Meaner
HITLER may think he is the meanest man that ever lived, but Pharaoh was still meaner. The Hitler régime, through its representatives, has attacked and imprisoned innocent people, has abused school children at school, and even refused to permit a German to marry a Jewess to whom he had been engaged for years, but, so far as known, it has not yet duplicated Pharaoh’s arrangement for putting Jewish babies to death as soon as they are born. But probably that will come along soon in the laws put forth by this tool of the papacy.
Employment for Young
IT IS against the law in Germany for any man under 25 years of age to accept employment if his place can be filled by an older unemployed man. This has had the effect of driving 250,000 young men into what is called the labor service. Theoretically this labor service busies itself with drainage, flood prevention projects, road construction, reclamation of waste land, and settlement construction aid. It also finds time to drill, and is today the best-drilled body of troops in Europe.
Conscription of Women
COMPULSORY labor service for all women has been decreed in Germany; women must serve at least six months; men a year and a half. Even foreigners are subject to so-called air-protection drills; no pictures of such drills may be taken; the penalty for disobedience is a term in prison.
One Year of the Nazi Terror
CONDITIONS in Germany under the Nazi régime may be judged from the fact that in the one year ending June 30, 1934, official figures show, 212 people were beheaded, 184 were “shot while attempting to escape”, 280,308 were jailed, and 49,000 were sent to concentration camps; over 13,000 were deprived of their citizenship, and 12,863 were sterilized. The same methods of terror are still in use. The new legal code makes treason to the State (which includes spreading of unfavorable news about it) punishable by death. An entirely new offense is created, called “treason to the people”, which consists of unfavorable comments on the German people. Blasphemy is defined, in one definition, as “grossly violating the German people’s religious feeling”.
Savagery Toward Communists
MOST certainly the Communists have a right to their views, but at Brunswick, Germany, Rudolf Claus was given the death sentence by a Nazi judge because he was cashier of a Communist organization, gave relief to suffering Communists, and helped some of them to escape from Germany. The court shamelessly admitted that the man was being punished more for his will than for any evil deeds he had done. A woman Communist, at the same time, was sentenced to nine years’ penal servitude, while three young men were given sentences of nine, seven and four years each. What beastly terrorism!
Refugees in Holland and Denmark
GERMAN refugees, largely but not wholly Jews, are being trained for future usefulness in both Holland and Denmark. At Weiringen, in what was recently the Zuider Zee, 250 are being transformed into farmers, horticulturists, carpenters, metalworkers or housewives. In Denmark, where conditions are still better, they are scattered among the farmers, with the understanding that after a year of training they will leave the country. Most of them expect to go to Palestine, but some hope to go to South Africa and others to South America.
Jews Forbidden Health Resorts
ALL over Germany health resorts are forbidding Jews to enter the premises. Notices are posted at every entrance.
The Devil’s Pagan Wing
Analysis of Hitler Philosophy
WHEN the Devil further took over the German people, by putting them into the hands of Hitler, he provided new “spiritual food” for them. Hitler’s director of philosophy is Dr. Rosenberg. In his book, The Myth of the Twentieth Century, now in its twenty-fourth edition, and accepted as a textbook by the Nazi youth, he says that Jesus Christ was a great personality, but smothered in “all the waste and rubbish of Asia Minor, Palestine and Africa”, meaning by that last expression, the Bible. After denouncing in savage language the historical and prophetical books that preceded Christ’s first advent, he says that these “stories of pimps and cattle dealers will be replaced by Nordic sagas and legends”. On page 636 he says: “The principal requirement of all German education is to recognize the fact that we have not derived our ethical standards from Christianity, but that Christianity owes its permanent qualities to the German character. It is therefore the virtues of the German character that are eternal. Everything else must adapt itself to these virtues.”
This kind of “spiritual food” has the definite approval of Big Business, and would be entirely acceptable to them in America, if the American people would fall for it. And people that will swallow what the American people swallowed just after Mr. Wilson “kept us out of the war” will swallow anything at all.
Sundry Church Items
AMERICAN churches in Germany have been closed, there being now so few Americans in the country that it does not pay to keep them open. In Hamburg there are now said to be 394 religious groups, 214 of which registered within the past ten years. Twelve hundred German pastors were arrested for denouncing as superstition the Nazi belief in an eternal Germany which puts itself in the place of Christ Jesus, the Lord. After a week they were allowed to read the manifesto to their congregations, but were compelled to make certain additions. In Bavaria thirteen of the seventeen Roman Catholic academies for women teachers have been closed. The Catholics staged a big counterdemonstration in Berlin, where it is claimed that 20,000 turned out to celebrate the papal anniversary. The Devil’s religious campaign in Germany is exceedingly complicated and confused by lies.
Proclaiming Hitler as Christ
HUGH REDWOOD, writing in the London News Chronicle, declares that in Thuringia, Germany, Hitler has been proclaimed Christ, and that on Hitler’s birthday many pastors placed his portrait on their altars and read to their congregations, not from the Bible, but from Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. It is claimed that the young people of Germany are being carried away with the new concept that the thing to be worshiped is the German blood. In an address to a great concourse of these young people General Herman Goering, German air minister and Prussian premier, said: “By believing in my people and their future I believe in the Almighty. We do not permit ourselves to be fascinated by disbelief or revealed miracles, for there never has happened a greater miracle than in our time. This miracle of the Almighty has been performed through Adolf Hitler—a miracle of resurrection of the German people.” In the Hitler Youth Hour, broadcast June 30 over Germany, the demand was made that the youth of the land decide “Are you with our Leader or do you want to have besides another leader?” These and hundreds of other items show that Hitler, in Germany, has, for millions of Germans, become Antichrist.
Bitter Cries of Protestants
GERMAN Protestants have denounced the Nazi church government as despotic, lying, robbing and under the control of Satan, all of which is true. That church government has, in effect, announced that God must be a German. In an official manifesto signed by the state bishop of the Bavarian church the claim was rightly made that “the doors have been opened for every heresy that unites with these powers”. Little by little the lesson is soaking in in Germany that “the friendship of the world is enmity with God” and that “ye cannot serve God and mammon”.
What Protestants Are Up Against
WHAT German Protestants are up against may be judged from the following pronunciamiento by the so-called “Reichsbishop” Ludwig Mueller. In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast that gentleman said: “The time will come when only Nazis will conduct services and only Nazis will occupy the pews. We want one people, one state, one church.” It might well be added, “And so does the Devil.” Statements of the Nazi Press
THE Nazi press of Germany is more completely and more definitely controlled by Satan than is the press of any other country. These deplorable conditions are to be charged to the preachers, who in turn have been influenced by the devilish trend of German culture and philosophic thought. The following are translations of some of the statements made therein:
‘The excellent gods of the old Germanic religion are more closely related to us and holier than the Jew God Jehovah and the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The German children must learn to know their own ancestors and learn to respect them, and that is a higher way towards faith in Germany than the characters of the Jewish Bible.’
‘The old blood of Germanic spirit is awakening again in us, and no power in the world can put it down again. One thing Christianity has not been able to do is to put the old joyful heathen laughing out of the world. All laughing comes from heathendom, and joy is heathenish. Christianity knows not to laugh, and no evangelist reports that Jesus of Nazareth ever laughed.’
‘Nations of the world, be loyal to yourselves, or be loyal to your own gods. Be loyal to your race and country and whatever is grown thereon. Challenge Jehovah to battle, who threatens your life. [Was there reference here to the numerous telegrams sent to the head of the German government by Jehovah’s witnesses from all over the earth? These telegrams read, in part, “Cease persecuting Jehovah’s witnesses, or Jehovah will destroy you and your national party.”]’
‘Jehovah must die in us and amongst us. If we continue this fight against Jehovah we will do the greatest service and accomplish the world mission of the German people. We do not need the Bible any longer. The Bible does not mean anything to us. We Germans are not mere men. We are gods!’
‘Service of Jehovah means indifference to everyone for himself. Jehovah must die in us and to us in order that we as a people may live. When this dawn of demonism is accomplished within us, then we render to the world the highest and the greatest service, and that is the real mission of the German people.’ (Paper for the German faith, Lightning No. 18.)
‘The church has not prevented the German workingman from losing his faith in God, and in his home, and that he has sold out to atheism and Marxism. The church, by its covenant with the bourgeois, and by the marriage of throne and altar, has driven the German workingmen into international Marxism and bolshevism. The German workingmen will not voluntarily return to the church and to Christianity.’ (The ABC of the German heathen.)
‘The German youth do not any longer find moral foundation in the Bible, but in their faith in Germany.’
Growth of Paganism
PAGANISM is growing in Germany by leaps and bounds. In the largest auditorium in Berlin a mob of 15,000 shouted itself hoarse over such propositions as a flat repudiation of Christianity, and a declaration that God had revealed Himself to the German people through Adolf Hitler. The minister of the interior, Wilhelm Frick, has forbidden such meetings to either Catholics or Protestants. Hitler’s personal bodyguard was on hand; the hall was decorated as if for a Nazi convention; swastika flags draped from the balconies and covered the walls. A thousand pastors of the Lutheran church have been arrested; three of them were arrested for specifically mentioning by name four others that had been arrested. The names were mentioned in prayers; so it seems even prayers are censored in Germany now.
The Nordic Faith Movement
PROFESSOR BERGMANN, of Leipsic University, spokesman for the German Nordic Faith Movement, says, in part: “In almost all respects Christianity is contrary to the German conception of decency and morals. Those who forgive sins sanction sins. The forgiving of sins undermines religious ethics and destroys the morals of the people. The believer in German religion is not a servant of God, but master over the Divinity within himself. No longer do we want merely to believe in Christ, but we want to be Christ ourselves and act like Christ, for ourselves, for our people, and for humanity.” To this may be added the fact that the cruelties practiced in German concentration camps are so terrible as to defy description and sufficient to break the will of the most determined.
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