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Niemoeller

or Nie·möl·ler

[ nee-mœ-luhr ]

noun

  1. Mar·tin [mahr, -teen], 1892–1984, German Lutheran clergyman: resisted Nazism.


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It had special facilities for politically prominent prisoners, including the former Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, who opposed Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria, anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemoeller, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s eldest son, who died there in 1943.

In Berlin one of the sturdiest Protestant pastors in the fight against Nazification, famed Rev. Martin Niemoeller, summed up last week's events thus: "The situation is unchanged, since M�ller remains Reichsbischof!"

As early as 1954," said Niemoeller, "the Pope pointed to the dangers to mankind in the genetic effects of radiation.

On September 21, 1933, Rev. Martin Niemoeller and others created the "Pastors' Emergency League", which opposed the "GERMAN CHRISTIANS".

In the beginning, Niemoeller's group was definitely in the minority.

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