Images of Churches and clergy involved in Nazism

All the following images, headings and text come from The Christian Heritage's Horror Picture Show on the Nazi Era.
As that site is now off-line for some reason, and because the images with their descriptions are important and deserve to be seen and read, they've been placed here until such a time as The Christian Heritage comes back on-line.
The reference given is:

[KS] E.Klee, Die SA Jesu Christi. Die Kirchen im Banne Hitlers (The SA of Jesus Christ: The Churches Under Hitler), Frankfurt/Main: Fischer 1989. [Link]

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Never-ending love and loyalty to the Führer

November 15, 1933: More than a thousand deaconesses, Lutheran nuns, meet under the swastika. The Bishop of Berlin in his speech: "Permit me to compare our sisters with the SA!" (a paramilitary Nazi troop).
Contemporary photograph [KS]

...the SA of Jesus Christ and the SS of the Church

September 1933: German Protestant deacons meet in Hamburg to celebrate the centennial of their association. A Protestant pastor addresses his comrades in a speech entitled Deaconry as attack:

"All this is Protestant deaconry: Service and fight. We greet you all as the SA of Jesus Christ and the SS of the Church, you brave ... [fighters] of need, misery, despair and dereliction." [KS57]

After the war the swastika was removed from most of the photographs of the meeting. Only a few survived unaltered, such as this one.
Contemporary photograph [KS]

A remarkable Letter

A very interesting letter dated December 2, 1933: (translation)

The District President
of Segeberg County
Bad Segeberg, City Hall, Hamburger Straße 30

Date of Receipt

To
the National Association for Inward
Mission (=Deaconry)
Department concentration camp Kuhlen
in K u h l e n
Neumünster District.
(reference nr.)

(file number)

Ref. 7,2 - 12/2/1933 -

Re:,

Your letter of 28. last month to the mayor as head of the local police department of Bad Segeberg, referring to the payment of the amount invoiced for prisoners in protective custody (the term was generally used for concentration camp inmates) for the months September and October totaling 145.80 RM, has been forwarded to me. Hereupon I inform you that the invoice of 71.55 RM for September has not been ordered to be paid. This referred to the prisoners (blackened) and (blackened) from Bad Segeberg. The amount has already been invoiced with the letter to the District President. In this case the amount thus has been invoiced twice. From here I cannot ascertain if the amount of 74.25 RM for October has been paid, because all the records are in Schleswig. To investigate in this case the name of the prisoners in question will be required, as well as the total amount of the invoice for the month October.

by proxy
signed Jensen

One is your Master, your Führer

Title Page of a German Christian Magazine, April 1939 Please note that when this magazine was printed, the majority of the Nazis' crimes had already been committed. Communists, democrats, homosexuals, and others had already been carried off into concentration camps, the shameful anti-Jewish race laws of Nuremberg had been introduced 1935. Even those who for a long time had been closing their eyes to the evilness of the Nazis could no longer delude themselves, after the "Kristallnacht" of November 1938, a government-incited public pogrom against the remaining Jews when thousands were killed in the streets, had taken place. The German army had "peacefully" (and to the relief of the major part of its population) annexed Austria in early 1938, and - less peacefully - invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
Translation:

German Deacon Press

MAGAZINE FOR MALE DEACONRY
Official Organ of the German Deacons
One is your Master, Christ, but ye are all brethren

25th Year - - April 1939 - - Nr 4

(Picture)

Heil to the Führer of all Germans

Magazine Cover in [KS]