Archive/File: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-3436-ps Last-Modified: 1997/01/08 Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume 6 [Page 145] TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 3436-PS 1935 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 1178 Law for the Safeguarding of the German Protestant Church of 24 September 1935 According to the will of the Protestant congregation the unification of the State Churches in a German Protestant Church has been accomplished and documented in a constitution. Nevertheless, the Reich Cabinet has been obliged to observe with deep anxiety how a condition has later arisen through a conflict of church groups among and against each other, which destroys the unity of the congregation, prejudices the freedom of faith and conscience of the individual, harms the racial community [Volksgemeinschaft] and exposes to extreme dangers the stability of the Protestant Church itself. The Reich Cabinet permeated by the desire to be able to turn over the regulation church which is internally settled, in accordance with its duty as a trustee, and in the knowledge that this tasks cannot be left to any of the conflicting groups. To safeguard the stability of the German Protestant Church and to introduce an order which will enable the church to regulate its own questions of faith and creed in complete freedom and calm, has resolved upon the following law, which is hereby published. The Reich Minister for Church Affairs, in order to reestablish a settled state of affairs in the German Protestant Church and in the legally binding power. The decrees will be published in the Reichsgesetzblatt. Munich, 24, September, 1935. The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister for Church Affairs Kerrl
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