A survey of church people victimized by the Nazis was received yesterday by the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, 870 Broadway, from its World Committee in Paris of which Lord Marley is chairman. The committee reported it is now in possession of considerable correspondence from clergymen directly concerned in addition to reports brought from Germany by couriers, and official Nazi reports.
According to private reports received by the World Committee, a number of German clergymen, dismissed because their Aryan descent was not beyond question, have escaped to Ewitzerland. They have escaped to Switzerland. They and employment.
The National Committee To Aid Victims of German Fascism yesterday issued instructions to its branch committees in thirty-nine cities and all affiliated organizations, to extend their campaign to aid the persecuted clergy. The memorandum calls for the organization of sub-committees to rally aid for the church people suffering from Nazi terror to which clergymen of American, and representatives of congregations and other religious societies will be asked to send delegates.
The survey is divided into two sections. The first deals with persecuted Catholic clergy and the second with Protestant victims.
“Following the suppression of Catholic organizations,” the survey states, “the terror against the lower clergy has become widespread.”
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