offenders against the law whose guilt can be proved by means of impartial   
legal proceedings. The state which oversteps this divinely willed limit   
and allows or causes the punishment of innocemt, people, undermines its   
own authority and every regard for its sovereignty in the minds of the   
                         citizens.                          
 
                                                            
 
 
Unfortunately during the last few years we have repeatedly had to observe  
that more or less heavy penalties,mostly in the form of deprtvation of   
liberty were imposed without any crime having been proved against the   
victims by a regular legal procedure, and without  their being given the   
pportunity to defend their rights or to prove their innocenc
 
                                                            
 
 
How many Germans are languishing in police detention or concentration   
camps, who were ejected from their homes, Who were never condemned by a   
public court or who, after being aequitted by a court or after serving the   
sentence imposed by the court, have again been taken into custody by the   
Gestapo and held captive. How many have been driven out of their home and   
out of the place where they work: I recall again the Reverend Bishop of   
Rottenburg, Johannes Baptista Sproll, an old man of 70 years, who recently   
had to celebrate his 25-years jubilee as bishop far from his diocese,   
se three years ago the Gestapo turned him out, of his bishop
 
                                                            
 
 
I once more the two members of our Cathedral Chapter, the Reverend   
Gentlemon Vorwerk mad Echelmeyer. I recall our most honoured teacher of   
religion, Friedrichs  who is languishing in a concentration camp. I will   
refrain from merit toning any further names today. The name of an   
evangelical man, who risked his life for Germany as a