Religious News Service Photographs

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Text transcribed from caption: PC-45910 ECUMENICAL HOSPITALITY WEST BERLIN -- Dr. Philip A. Potter, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, chats with Roman Catholic Bishop Friedrich M. Rintelen of East Germany (right) outside West Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Church following the opening worship service of the WCC’s Central Committee meeting. The Catholic prelate was a guest of honor at the meeting. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8C-74-DS)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Potter, Philip., Rintelen, Friedrich M. (Friedrich Maria), 1899-1988., Catholic Church--Bishops., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Bishops--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360892
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Text transcribed from caption: P-45909 AT CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING WEST BERLIN -- The annual meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches brought church leaders from all over the world to West Berlin for the committee’s last meeting before the 1975 WCC General Assembly. In top photo, from left, are: the Rev. Sang Park of Korea; Pauline Webb of Britain, vice-chairman of the Central Committee; Dr. Kiyoko T. Cho of Japan, a WCC president; and Dr. W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft, former general secretary and honorary president of the Council. Below, from left, are: anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead; Central Committee members Oberlandeskirchenrat Ulrich von Bruck of the Lutheran Church of Saxony and Bishop D. Kurt Scharf of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg; and Dr. Paul Albrecht, a WCC staff member. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-8C-74-DS)
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Park, Sang., Webb, Pauline., Takeda, Kiyoko, 1917-2018., Visser’t Hooft, W. M. (Willem M.), Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978., Brück, Ulrich von., Scharf, Kurt., Albrecht, Paul G. E., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anthropologists--Germany--Berlin., Women anthropologists--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360891
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Park, Sang., Webb, Pauline., Takeda, Kiyoko, 1917-2018., Visser’t Hooft, W. M. (Willem M.), Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978., Brück, Ulrich von., Scharf, Kurt., Albrecht, Paul G. E., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Anthropologists--Germany--Berlin., Women anthropologists--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360795
Creator:
World Council of Churches. (author)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., World Council of Churches. Central Committee--Congresses., World Council of Churches. Central Committee., Potter, Philip., Rintelen, Friedrich M. (Friedrich Maria), 1899-1988., Catholic Church--Bishops., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Congresses and conventions--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany (West), Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Bishops--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360708
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Text transcribed from caption: HARMONY IN A GERMAN ORPHANAGE #C-4868 BERLIN -- Catholic nuns at a German orphanage, sisters of the Order of St. Joseph, gather in the courtyard for some instrumental diversion. Many religious workers such as these have accepted the monumental task of rededicating the lives of Germany’s “lost” youth to new ideals. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LK-BER-BS-12A-6-C)
Creator:
Kaskell, Lilo. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Sisters of Saint Joseph.
Topics:
Nuns--Germany--Berlin., Musicians--Germany--Berlin., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Denazification--Germany--Ettal., Orphanages--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360531
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Text transcribed from caption: REEDUCATING GERMANY’S YOUTH #C-4867 BERLIN -- Catholic nuns are helping to reeducate German youth, as shown in this exclusive photo taken by a Religious News Service photographer in the American occupation zone. The school is located in a deserted brewery that stands on the grounds of a medieval castle. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LK-BER-BS-12A-6-C)
Creator:
Kaskell, Lilo. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Nuns--Germany--Berlin., Church and education--Germany., Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany., Denazification--Germany--Ettal., Education--Germany--Berlin., Nuns as teachers--Germany--Berlin., Children--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Germany (West)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:360530
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Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN BISHOP’S AIDE #3317 BERLIN -- Eberhard Bethge is assistant to Dr. Otto Dibelius, Bishop of Berlin of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RR-BER-MES-4D-6-L)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Bethge, Eberhard, 1909-2000., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy.
Topics:
Clergy--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359324
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Text transcribed from caption: S-1004 BISHOP OF CHICHESTER IN BERLIN BERLIN -- A little German refugee crouches by a fire at Lehrter Station and watches the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K. A. Bell (directly behind the little girl). Dr. Bell was touring Berlin to inspect conditions on behalf of the World Council of Churches. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MCE-NY-LM-11-13-5)
Creator:
Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin, Germany), World Council of Churches., Bell, G. K. A. (George Kennedy Allen), 1883-1958., Church of England--Bishops.
Topics:
Visits of state--Germany--Berlin., War relief--Germany--Berlin., Interdenominational cooperation., European cooperation., Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358919
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Text transcribed from caption: #811 BERLIN COUNSELLOR FOR JEWISH PROBLEMS Siegmund Weltinger, journalist and banker, is Counsellor for Jewish Problems in the Office for Church Affairs of the Berlin city government. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-LM-11-26-5)
Creator:
Turner. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Weltlinger, Siegmund., Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Berlin.
Topics:
Church and state--Germany--Berlin., Jewish leadership--Germany--Berlin., Journalists--Germany--Berlin., Jewish journalists--Germany--Berlin., Bankers--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358851
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Text transcribed from caption: #810 BERLIN COUNSELLOR FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC INTEREST Father Peter Buchholz is the Counsellor [sic. Councillor] for Roman Catholic interests and chairman of the Office for Church Affairs of the Berlin city government. For twenty years he was chaplain at the Plotzensee Prison near Berlin. During the Nazi regime he ministered to over 1000 political prisoners who were sentenced to die by hanging. These included Catholics executed for the famous July 20 attempt on Hitler’s life. Father Buchholz and other Catholic clergymen in Berlin frequently wear ordinary street clothes when engaging in civil affairs. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-LM-11-26-5)
Creator:
Turner. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Buchholz, Peter., Catholic Church--Clergy., Catholic Church--Diplomatic service.
Topics:
Church and state--Germany--Berlin., Prison chaplains--Germany., Christian leadership--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358850
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Text transcribed from caption: #1008 NIEMOELLER PREACHES FIRST BERLIN SERMON Pastor Martin Niemoeller, famous German Confessional pastor, is shown preaching at Annan Church [sic. St. Anne's Church] in Berlin. It was his first sermon in Berlin since being released from a Nazi concentration camp. (An exclusive RNS photo) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-LM-11-13-5)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Bekennende Kirche--Clergy., St. Anne's Church, Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Protestant churches--Clergy., Confessionalization., Ex-internment camp inmates--Germany--Berlin., Preaching--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358797
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Text transcribed from caption: #1008 NIEMOELLER PREACHES FIRST BERLIN SERMON Pastor Martin Niemoeller, famous German Confessional pastor, is shown preaching at Annan Church [sic. St. Anne's Church] in Berlin. It was his first sermon in Berlin since being released from a Nazi concentration camp. (An exclusive RNS photo) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-LM-11-13-5)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984., Bekennende Kirche--Clergy., St. Anne's Church, Dahlem (Berlin, Germany)
Topics:
Protestant churches--Clergy., Confessionalization., Ex-internment camp inmates--Germany--Berlin., Preaching--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358796
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Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN CHURCH TO BE REBUILT #S-1289 BERLIN -- The Kaiser William Church, one of Germany’s most fashionable pre-war edifices, although repeatedly hit during the heavier bombings, will be rebuilt. A sum of 300,000 marks is being sought to restore the sanctuary to its former glory. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Reconstruction--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357017
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Text transcribed from caption: 1298 BISMARCK SURVEY WRECKAGE OF BERLIN’S DOM BERLIN -- Comparatively undamaged, Bismarck’s statue still stands in the Dom, Protestant cathedral here, surveying the ruins of the burial chapels. Tomb in foreground is that of Emperor Friederick, who ruled over Germany in 1888. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-5-L-O-DEN)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898--Statues., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Frederick III, German Emperor, 1831-1888--Tomb., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Crypts--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356954
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Text transcribed from caption: 1296 AMERICAN CHURCH IN BERLIN A WAR CASUALTY BERLIN -- Twisted girders and shattered walls surround the tower of the wrecked American Church here. The tower was the gift of John D. Rockefeller. Parish house of the church also was destroyed. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-5-L-O-DEN)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
American Church in Berlin., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356953
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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:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Böhm, Hans, 1899-1962., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland. Kirchenkanzlei., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempts., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
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:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356952
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Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN’S KAISER WILLIAM CHURCH IN RUINS #1290 BERLIN -- Twisted girders are mute evidence of the destruction wrought on the historic Kaiser William Memorial Church here. Pastor of the church is Dr. Gerhard Jacobi, who was called to appear before the Gestapo more than 100 times. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-14-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356951
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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:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Grüber, Heinrich, 1891-1975., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Clergy--Germany--Berlin., World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Theologians--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356938
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Text transcribed from caption: PRESS CHIEF OF GERMAN RELIGIOUS POLITICAL GROUP #1267 BERLIN -- Wrapped in a heavy overcoat to stave off the cold, Georg Dertinger, press chief of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, formed from remnants of the old Roman Catholic Center Party, works at his desk in his unheated Berlin office. Dertinger also acts as secretary to the president of the Union, Dr. Andreas Hermes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-12-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Dertinger, Georg., Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Press secretaries--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany., Christianity and politics--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356937
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Text transcribed from caption: PROMINENT IN GERMAN CHRISTIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT #1266 BERLIN -- Mrs. Hildegard Staehle, of Berlin, is an important figure in the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, which is built around remnants of the old Roman Catholic Center party, but is open to members of all faiths. Mrs. Staehle is also a councellor in the Social Service Office of the Berlin City Government. Her husband, Col. Wilhelm Staehle, was murdered by the Gestapo April 29, 1945, for anti-Nazi activity and she was thrown into a concentration camp. Women are playing an increasingly important role in the Christian political movements of Europe. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-MES-12-12-5)
Creator:
Jacobson-Sonnenfeld (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Tucker, E.E. (contributor)
Subject names:
Staehle, Hildegard., Christlich-Demokratische Union Deutschlands., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Nazi concentration camp inmates --Germany--Berlin., Women--Political activity--Germany., Ecumenical movement--Germany., Christianity and politics--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356936

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