Evening star., 1935-04-27
NUNS AND MONKS
ARRESTEDBy NAz|S
Held for Exchange Viola
tionS in Anti-ChriStian Ger
man Faith Movement.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 81. Nuns and
monks, some of whom we're described
as aged and feeble, from 54 different
Catholic orders, were held today for
foreign exchange violations as the cries
of speakers in great anti-Christian
German faith movement echoed
through the Reich.
The members of the religious or
ders were arrested during a wholesale
purging of Catholic institutions for
alleged violations of the exchange law.
Many of the nuns who were arrested,
Catholic sources said, have been in
solitary retreat for more than five
years. They scarcely know who Hitler
is, it was said, and most certainly
never heard of the devisen foreign
exchange) law" Elderly and sickly
mothers superior were among those
arrested. Some we're brought to Ber-
lin and put in the women's prison.
Catcalls Greet Speaker.
This action vas disclosed as catcalls
and stamping feet greeted last night S
anti Christian meeting in the great
Berlin sports palast when Jacob Will
helm Hauer declared that Christianity
is not the true religion of Germans.
At the same time, the possibility
arose that the Vatican would protest
against the new press law banning
religious and other publications held
inimical to the Third Reich.
While a report was being sent to
the Vatican maintaining that Article
Nv of the concordat was broken by
the new law, the church situation be-
came further involved when the Nazis
struck nearer TO the heart OF the
Protestant opposition to the Nazi
church by arresting three more rebel
pastors. All we're closely connected
with the inner functioning of the non
conformist, underground organization
Arrested After Session.
The pastors. Rev. Wilhelm Harnisch
Rev. Mr.. PraStoriuS and Supt. Gott-
hold Bronisch, Office manager OF the
Berlin organization of confessional
clergymen, were arrested at the close
of an executive council meeting OF
the confessional synod. The arrests
apparently were made with the in
tention of creating salutary effect
Other members of the synod, how
ever, said later that the executive
council would sit again.
Hauer, addressing huge crowd al
the NaN-sanctioned rally, said that
God had revealed himself to US
through Adolf Hitler.
christianity says there Is only one
way to God and whoever does not be-
lieve in it is lost Hauer said. Such
claim leads to confessionalism
from which sprung all evils that af-
f1icted the religious history OF the
German people in the past. God has
not revealed himself in the so-callec
chosen people alone, but also to us
through our Fuehrer, to enable us tt
accomplish our great mission in the
world"
Students Answer Hauer.
Theological students attempted te
| break up the pantheistic gathering
but after several interruptions they
were dragged to the door by Naz
Brownshirts. Several were struck or
the head.
The students had answered Hauer's
statement that the church would give
way to the German faith movement
with cries of Never, never"
Count Ernst Reventlow, an ole
Nazi fighter, preceded Hauer and de-
clared churches were losing ground
every year.
i Reventlow described the faith move
ment as religious and non-christian,
and born of the Germanic longing fol-
something apart from Christianity.