“Throughout the Last war (WWI) and throughout the present one (WWII), the Germans have committed atrocities which are impossible to imagine by those who have merely read or heard about them. This is teaching hatred, but an undeniable though most unpleasant fact. Not once in either war has any section of the Lutheran clergy protested — such as have the churches of Norway and other occupied counties where the Gestapo is at least as strong as inside Germany. With the exception of a few refugee pastors in Britain, I do not know of any section of the German Protestant Confessional Church whose pastors have refused to preach, to serve, to ordain and bless the atrocities and horrors committed by the German armies and their leaders. These facts are unpleasant and horrible. I maintain that we can understand them and explain them only if we look at the dark figure from whom the German Lutheran clergy has for four centuries taken their orders: Martin Luther”
— Peter F. Weiner, Martin Luther, Hitler’s Spiritual Ancestor, Published by Marian House, Powers Lake, N.D., pp 88-89.