Confessing Church
After the government waged war on Poland and thus started the Second World War, male members of the Confessing Church were preferently drafted for the army. Hanns Kerrl demanded to calm down the "struggle of the churches", since the Wehrmacht wanted no activities against pastors of the "Confessing Church" during the war. So the Gestapo concentrated on pastors of the "Confessing Church", who were not drafted. In January 1940, urged by the Wehrmacht, Hitler repeated that no wide-ranging actions against the "Confessing Church" are to be taken, so that the Gestapo returned to selective forms of repression.