trial and without sentence. Thus the two gentlemen of the Chapter who are   
in exile and thus also the members of our Orders, who yesterday and today   
have suddenly been driven out of their property and out of town and country.  
No one of us is sure, however faithful and conscientious a citizen he may be  
 and however convince he may be of his own innocence, that he will not one   
day be fetched from his home, deprived of his liberty and locked up in the   
      cellars and concentration camps of the Gestapo.       
 
                                                            
 
 
I am quite clear about that, it may happen to me, today, any day. Because   
I shall then no longer be able to speak publicly, I want today to give a   
public warning against continuing on this path which, according to my  
firm conviction, will bring God's judgment on humanity  
misery  
and will lead to misery and destruction for our people  
                      and our country.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
If I protest against these measures and punishments  
by the Gestapo, if I publicly demand an end to these conditions and a   
juridical examination or the withdrawal of these Gestapo measures, then   
I am only doing what the Governor General, Minister of State Dr. Frank,   
did when he wrote in February of this year in the publication of the   
Academy for German Justice-- "We want that dependable balance of internal   
order which will not allow the penal code to be debased to absolute   
authoritarianism of the power to prosecute against the accused who is   
already condemned from the beginning and deprived of every means of   
defence. The law must give the individual the legal possibility of   
defence, of explaining the cirmmstances of the deed and thereby of   
security against arbttrariness and injustice...., otherwise it is better   
not to speak of a penal code, but of penal force. It is impossible to