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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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Text transcribed from caption: BOMB DAMAGE IN BERLIN’S DOM #1265 BERLIN -- In interior view of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant cathedral shows the blasted altar as well as the wrecked floor and the ancient burial vaults beneath. 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:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., 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:356935
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Text transcribed from caption: GERMANY’S METHODIST BISHOP #1264 BERLIN -- Dr. F. H. Otto Melle is the Methodist Bishop of Germany, and a leading temperance crusader on the Continent. A resident of Berlin, Dr. Melle formerly was director of the Methodist Theological Seminary at Frankfurt am Main, largest free-church institute of its kind in Europe. One of the first Germans to visit the U.S. after World War 1, Bishop Melle often has been a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church. 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:
Evangelisch-Methodistische Kirche (Germany)--Bishops., Melle, F. H. Otto, -1947, Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Bishops--Germany--Berlin., Theologians--Germany--Berlin., Temperance--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356934
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Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN’S DOM OPEN TO THE SKIES #1263 BERLIN -- Sunlight streams through the shattered cupola of the Dom, Berlin’s Protestant cathedral. The outside of the cupola still bears the bullet marks dating from the 1918 revolution when the Sparticians thought troops were occupying the Dom and fired on it. 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:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Domes--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356933
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Text transcribed from caption: CATHOLIC BISHOP OF BERLIN #1261 BERLIN -- Konrad Count von Preysing, Roman Catholic Bishop of Berlin, was one of the most militant critics of the Nazi regime. 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:
Catholic Church--Bishops., Preysing, Konrad, Graf von, 1880-1950., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Bishops--Germany--Berlin., Fascism and the Catholic Church--Germany.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356932
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Text transcribed from caption: AMERICANS WORSHIP IN BERLIN #1260 BERLIN -- With the chaplain’s jeep parked outside the entrance, American soldiers wait for the start of their service in the Zehlendorf West Evangelical Church in Berlin. 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:
United States. Army., United States. Army--Chaplains., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Chaplains, Military--Germany--Berlin., Soldiers--Religious life--United States., Soldiers--Religious life--Germany--Berlin., Public worship--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Zehlendorf (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356931
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Text transcribed from caption: BERLIN PRELATES IN CHURCH DRIVE #1184 BERLIN -- Father Peter Buchholz (left) and the Rev. Heinrich Grueber, Catholic and Protestant leaders respectively of the Berlin Office of Church Affairs, have been instrumental in gaining an allotment from Allied occupation authorities of 820,000 marks for the repair of war-damaged churches and synagogue in Berlin. Also on the Church Affairs body is Sigmund Weltinger, Jewish councilor for the city government of Berlin. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (EET-BER-S-12-6-5)
Subject names:
Catholic Church--Clergy., Buchholz, Peter., Grüber, Heinrich, 1891-1975., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Clergy., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945., Church buildings--Repair and maintenance., Buildings--War damage--Germany--Berlin., Clergy--Germany--Berlin., Ecumenical movement--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356883
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Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
Berliner Dom., Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland--Buildings., 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:356832
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
Subject names:
United States. Army., United States. Army--Chaplains., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topics:
Chaplains, Military--Germany--Berlin., Soldiers--Religious life--United States., Soldiers--Religious life--Germany--Berlin., Public worship--Germany--Berlin.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Zehlendorf (Berlin, Germany)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356830
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
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:356828
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:356826
Description:
Handwritten caption written on reverse side of photograph.
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)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:356822
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Text transcribed from caption: Die neue Gedachtniskirche ist fertig. Dieser Tage wurde der Neubau der Gedächtniskirche - ein Entwurf des Prof. Eiermann - fertiggestellt. Für die Berliner wurde der Neubau zum bestgehassten Objekt der letzen Jahre, “Gasometer” mit Fabrikschornstein” sind noch die zahmsten Ausdrücke, die für den Neubau geprägt wurden. Foto: KEYSTONE KESTONE - Berlin, 15.7.1961 1/36/43621/n/Pel
Creator:
Keystone (Berlin, Germany) (publisher), Eiermann, Egon, 1904-1970 (architect)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Berlin, Germany), Evangelische Kirche in Berlin-Brandenburg--Buildings.
Topics:
Church architecture--Germany--Berlin., Church buildings--Germany--Berlin., Functionalism (Architecture)--Germany--Berlin., Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Berlin (Germany), Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:355961

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