The well-known church organ Record denounces in its current issue the “gross inhumanity of the Nazi treatment of so-called inferior people” as a “crime exceedingly foul, for which those responsible must sooner or later answer at the bar of history.”
An editorial declares that the people who continued to protest against the injustice of the Versailles Treaty were daily showing themselves devoid of any spark of generosity or even of ordinary humanity and, “while demanding living room, are making it impossible for other peoples to live at all except under the shadow of persecution and murder.”
“Christian ethic in practice if not in theory,” the paper states “is completely rejected; pagan savagery is the hallmark of Nazi rule.”
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