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Volume VI · Page 341
| When subsequently I was
repeatedly arrested by the Gestapo, he intervened on several occasions with a
view to my release, successfully after my first arrest in February 1936, though
later without success, but with courage and tenacity. I am eternally grateful
to him for this. I am aware that Mr. Steinbrinck, in view of his personal and
industrial position, ran a great risk by intervening on my behalf and on behalf
of the Church, and I beg that this be taken into account when judging his
personal attitude. During those many years of my detention from 1937 until 1945, my wife, in the course of the occasional visiting hours allowed us, frequently and repeatedly brought me greetings from him which showed me that he had not changed his views and his attitude. I am convinced that Mr. Steinbrinck was and still is a man of entirely honorable character and that he would not have done anything which would have been incompatible with his conscience. |
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| [Signed] D. MARTIN NIEMOELLER |
