Rudolf Wentorf

The first two thirds of the book was a bit slow and contained the text of some of Pastor Paul Schneider's sermons and records of minor conflicts with members of the congregation. These issues become more important later as the Gestapo use Paul's words against him. This history illustrates how the government pressured and then forced the church to be silent about their racial policies and how the German government did their best to limit the influence of Christianity on the German people while they tried to supplant Christianity with their own form of Christianized racist nationalism that was not based on the scripture.

Paul would not go along with these efforts. He was harassed. Detained for a few weeks, released, banned from going back to his church, disobeyed the ban, arrested and then sent to a concentration camp. At Buchenwald he was beaten, tortured, tempted to recant his position on National Socialism, but for two years remained steadfast. Witness testimony was that the doctor in the camp killed him with an overdose. The Pastor was one of many unsuspecting victims killed this way. Recalcitrant prisoners had their food spiked with a cardiac depressant and were subsequently "treated" with a stimulant that would be given to them in overdose amounts to kill them. Then they would put on their medical records that they died of a heart condition.… (plus d'informations)