TLS from the German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi Confessing Church leader to Joseph Peikes of CBS Radio, New York, sending a photograph. Wiesbaden, 18th July 1962; 1 p., on his letterhead as Kirchenpräsident. In full: "Dear Mr. Peikes, / In answering your letter of June 12, 1962, I enclose a signed photograph of mine. / With kindest regards, / Sincerely yours, / [Signature]." The typed "phtograph" corrected by hand. The photograph not present. Mailing folds, dealer's pencil notes to verso. 9.75 x 7.5 inches; 24.5 x 19 cm.
Niemöller, a U-boat commander in the First World War, became a leader of the Confessing Church, was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1937 to 1945 as Hitler's "personal prisoner," and is remembered for his confession "First they came…". From 1947 to 1964 he was Church President of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.
TLS from the German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi Confessing Church leader to Joseph Peikes of CBS Radio, New York, sending a photograph. Wiesbaden, 18th July 1962; 1 p., on his letterhead as Kirchenpräsident. In full: "Dear Mr. Peikes, / In answering your letter of June 12, 1962, I enclose a signed photograph of mine. / With kindest regards, / Sincerely yours, / [Signature]." The typed "phtograph" corrected by hand. The photograph not present. Mailing folds, dealer's pencil notes to verso. 9.75 x 7.5 inches; 24.5 x 19 cm.
Niemöller, a U-boat commander in the First World War, became a leader of the Confessing Church, was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1937 to 1945 as Hitler's "personal prisoner," and is remembered for his confession "First they came…". From 1947 to 1964 he was Church President of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.