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Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...
After this oath had been read out a lay delegate from Stuttgart defied the Reichsbischof to his face...
...Personal Oath. What would the Army do? When President von Hindenburg, full of misgivings, called Adolf Hitler to the chancellorship (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933), he insisted that as a "safeguard" Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg, an aristocratic brother officer in whom he had utmost confidence, be made Defense Minister. Last week the Army's attitude depended on General von Blomberg, custodian of the military heritage of Feldmarschall von Hindenburg. Would he stand for the coup...
Without an instant's hesitation Defense Minister von Blomberg issued orders to all German Army and Navy commanders that their men at once take to Adolf Hitler something never considered necessary for them to take to Paul von Hindenburg?a personal oath. Within 24 hours the whole of the Defense Ministry's armed forces, except a few score men on leave, had vowed officially as follows...
...swear by God this holy oath: that I will give unqualified obedience to the Leader of the German Government and the German people, Adolf Hitler, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army [or Navy] and that as a courageous soldier [or sailor] I am ready at any time to place my life at stake for this oath...