Catholic clergy and Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels (far right) and Wilhelm Frick (second from right), give the Nazi salute. Germany, date uncertain.
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Nazi officials and Catholic bishops listen to a speech by Wilhelm Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior, at an official ceremony in the Saarbrucken city hall marking the reincorporation of the Saarland into the German Reich. March 1, 1935.
Among those pictured is Joseph Goebbels (seated at the far right), Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (Bishop of Trier) and Ludwig Sebastian (Bishop of Speyer).
Item View![Adolf Hitler greets Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller at a Nazi Party Congress. [LCID: 86141]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/41b934ce-3b5e-4f06-b642-b8788b76b12a.jpeg "Adolf Hitler greets Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller at a Nazi Party Congress. [LCID: 86141]")
Adolf Hitler greets Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller at a Nazi Party Congress. Roman Catholic Abbot Alban Schachleiter stands between Hitler and Mueller. Nuremberg, Germany, September 1934.
Item View![Ludwig Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer, was elected to the position of Reich Bishop in 1933 as Hitler attempted to unite regional Protestant ... [LCID: 90938]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/bbf54a16-882c-41bd-a71c-bf9a2a75abad.jpg "Ludwig Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer, was elected to the position of Reich Bishop in 1933 as Hitler attempted to unite regional Protestant ... [LCID: 90938]")
Ludwig Mueller, a Nazi sympathizer, was elected to the position of Reich Bishop in 1933 as Hitler attempted to unite regional Protestant churches under Nazi control. Berlin, Germany, November 17, 1933.
Item View![Martin Niemöller, a German theologian and pastor, on a visit to the United States after the war. [LCID: 90987]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e0a4727a-2b31-4c68-97a1-70f7a836600e.jpg "Martin Niemöller, a German theologian and pastor, on a visit to the United States after the war. [LCID: 90987]")
Martin Niemöller, a German theologian and pastor, on a visit to the United States after the war. A leader of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church, he spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. United States, October 4, 1946.
Item View![Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. [LCID: 78526]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/73bcaf3b-3a9b-46fe-bc09-49ab509af9ba.jpg "Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. [LCID: 78526]")
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian who was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945. Germany, date uncertain.
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