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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vintage Maven, post: 1465129, member: 11768&quot;]This book is from my vintage book collection. (Inscribed and signed by its author Sept, 1937 *possibly dictated by proxy while he was imprisoned in Berlin, just prior to being sent to a Concentration Camp).</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a 1937 first edition of First Commandment written by German Theologian and Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller. Initially, Niemoller was a National Conservative in support of the Nazi Party. However, he soon became one of the founders of Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Churches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of his opposition, Niemoller was imprisoned by the Nazis, then sent to Sachsenhaussen, and then Dachau Concentration Camps from 1938 to 1945. He narrowly escaped execution. The inscription written in this book during Sept, 1937 is from his initial weeks of imprisonment in Berlin. (*Me being a big history buff, I bought this book at the time, purely from a historical perspective, and it’s interesting inscription).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]225180[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]225181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]225182[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]225183[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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