The pastors' barracks

Christian Reger's quiet storybook world began to collapse in the frenzy of 1939 prewar Germany. Christian Reger was a minister in the Confessing Church in Germany. This church was a branch of the German state church under the leadership of Martin Niemoller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It opposed Hitler and sought to undermine the Nazis reign of terror as an expression of their Christian faith. Reger's organist informed the authorities of his underground work and the Gestapo arrested Reger and shippe...