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when Hitler had only recently come to power, the president of the Union of
Catholic Germans, Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, said in a speech on
November 2, 1933, "The kind Lord has blessed Germany by giving it in
times of deep distress a leader who will lead it, through all distresses and
weaknesses, through all crisis and moment of danger, with the sure instinct
of the statesman into a happy future." 110 Some others had also praised
Hitler as someone who was specially chosen to rescue
Germany from its historical misfortune and lead it
to a bright future.
While the Nazis were duping some
churches to collaborate with them, they tried to
intimidate others through
pressure and fear. In 1932,
the Protestant clergyman
Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave
a sermon in Berlin on
the subject of "the
truth." He praised
the importance of
love as opposed to a
racist system based
on hatred. He was
condemned to