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- Title
- Berlin's Dom.
- Description
- Text transcribed from captions on reverse: The heavily damaged Dom, Berlin’s Protestant Cathedral, where the Kaisers attended divine worship before World War I. This church was vandalized for 8 days following the occupation of Berlin. Most of the tombs of former German emperors and princes desecrated. At the right can be seen the towering St. Mary’s Church, one of the oldest sanctuaries in Brandenburg Provinces, and one of the mostly lightly [sic] damaged of the Berlin churches. Provost Heinrich Grueber, who is Protestant Counsellor in the Berlin City Government, is pastor of St. Mary’s. Domprediger Dr. ____Doehring standing amid the ruins of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant Cathedral. Dr. Doehring, who is still active in German church affairs, was the Kaisers’ pastor before World War I. During the Nazi regime he resisted efforts of the Hitlerites to “Nazify” the Christian Church. Services of the Dom parish are now held in a hall, as are most of church services in Berlin.
- Creator Name(s)
- Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
- Date Created
- 1945
- Name Subject(s)
- Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Grüber, Heinrich, 1891-1975., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Theologians--Germany--Berlin.
- Geographic subjects
- Germany, Berlin., Germany, Berlin., Germany, Berlin., Germany, Berlin., Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Europe--Germany--Berlin--Berlin
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. 1268; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_1268
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356938
- Title
- Berlin church leader.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN CHURCH LEADER 1292 BERLIN -- Dr. Hans Boehm, a member of the High Council of the Evangelical Church, was one of the leading anti-Nazi figures among the German clergy during the war. A Berlin Provost of the Evangelical Church, he was imprisoned five times by the Gestapo, the last time in connection with the plot against Hitler’s life in July, 1944. One of two persons to escape alive from Gestapo headquarters when the city fell, Dr. Boehm is 46 years old. His right leg was amputated in World War 1. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-19-5)
- Creator Name(s)
- Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
- Date Created
- 1945
- Name Subject(s)
- Böhm, Hans, 1899-1962., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Kirchenkanzlei., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempts., Religious News Service--Archives.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anti-Nazi movement--Germany., World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany., World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German., Operation Valkyrie, 1944.
- Geographic subjects
- Germany, Berlin., Germany., Germany., Berlin (Germany), Europe--Germany--Berlin--Berlin
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. 1292; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_1292
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356952