New York                             The New York Times                   January 8, 1935

Jailed for Failing to Salute

STRASLUND, Germany, January 7, 1935. Because he failed to give the Nazi salute when a band played the Nazi anthem, a German citizen was sentenced today to two weeks’ imprisonment. A Nazi paper in nearby Stettin asserts that he stood with his hands in his pockets while the band played the song which is sacred to every good National Socialist .  

The Associated Press                                                                  August 8, 1937

115 Seized in Niemoeller Parade

BERLIN, Germany, August 7. The police arrested, but later released, 115 demon-strators who marched through the streets tonight in protest against a ban on public prayer meetings for imprisoned pastors who had opposed Nazi church restrictions. The parade was believed to be the first public mass demonstration against any measure taken by the Government under Nazi rule. Several hundred members of the church of the Reverend Martin Niemoeller, Protestant leader in the fight against government control of church affairs, joined in the march. Niemoeller goes on trial Tuesday charged with having opposed Nazi church restrictions.

New York                            The New York Times             November 30, 1937

Reich Court Takes Children from Parents

WALDENBERG, Germany, November 29. A district court in this town today deprived a father and mother of their children because they opposed the National Socialist idea, taught their children not to give the Hitler salute, and were pacifists. Both parents are members of a Christian sect known as International Bible Researchers. They had adopted a number of pacifist ideas of the Quakers. The father denied that he had tried to influence the children’s attitude toward the present political regime. The court ruled that the children could not live in such an atmosphere without becoming “enemies of the state.”