| First
published in 1942, Leo Stein's account of the imprisonment
of Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoeller recounts face-to-face
discussions with Hitler. Martin Niemoeller was ordained as
a Lutheran pastor in 1924. He was a hero during World War
I, a German naval lieutenant and U-boat commander. He was
also one of the earliest and most vocal critics of Nazism.
As the Third Reich moved toward the obliteration of the Christian
Church, Niemoeller, along with other pastors, formed the Pastor's
Emergency League to protect the church and its ministers from
imprisonment and destruction. Niemoeller was protected until
1937, when he was found guilty of treason. He was sent for
're-education' and spent the remainder of World War II at
Sachsenhausen, Mobait, and Dachau. He lived a life of distinction,
serving as president of the World Council of Churches and
actively speaking out against nuclear armament and military
alliances until his death at age ninety-two in 1984. Leo Stein
served as a doctor of jurisprudence and church law and was
teaching at the University of Berlin when he was arrested
and summarily imprisoned for crimes of treason, his book on
the Russian Revolution held as the sole 'evidence' against
him. This book was written following his emigration to the
United States.
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