Paul Schneider (pastor)
Paul Robert Schneider (August 29, 1897 – July 18, 1939) was an Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union pastor who was the first Protestant minister to be martyred by the Nazis. He died in the infirmary as a consequence of medical treatment at Buchenwald.
Read more about Paul Schneider (pastor): Early Life, Nazi Opposition, Arrest and Imprisonment, Buchenwald, Death, Contemporaries of Note, Literature, Sources
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“That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.”
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