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Biographies include Dietmar Schmidt, Pastor Niemöller, trans. from German (1959); Clarissa Start Davidson (Clarissa Start), God’s Man (1959, reprinted 1979); and James Bentley, Martin Niemöller (1984, reissued 1986).

Hubert G. Locke and Marcia Sachs Littell (eds.), Remembrance and Recollection: Essays on the Centennial Year of Martin Niemöller and Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Fiftieth Year of the Wannsee Conference (1996), contains essays on Niemöller’s role in religious resistance to Nazism; for a collection of his correspondence while in prison, consult Hubert G. Locke (ed.), Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller’s Letters from Moabit Prison (1986; originally published in German, 1975).

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