Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a regarded German Lutheran theologian. Initially a Hitler supporter he quickly turned into a prominent Nazi opponent and representative of the ‘Confessing Church’, which opposed the Nazification of the Protestant Church. As such he had been interned in the concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1938-45. After the war Niemöller became an out speaking pacifist and anti-war activist. See Bentley, J., <a href"https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/329">Martin Niemöller; Eine Biographie, Munich, Beck, 1985.
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Re-establishing previous contact between Niemöller and The Wiener Library, the correspondence mentions, among other topics: certain publications on the German church in the Nazi era; a personal meeting of Niemöller and Alfred Wiener at a conference on Church and Judaism in Hildesheim 1955; and the change of Niemöller’s view on politics and Judaism since his early years.
Correspondence with Niemöller, Martin