In all the lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God's. Last week the spiritual combat zone was East Germany, where Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen joined in protesting a Soviet-style "family law." Due for enactment by the East zone legislature, the law mirrors the macabre woman who fashioned it, Hilde Benjamin, 52, known as "Red Hilde," "Hanging Hilde," and "the Red Guillotine."
Citations from Luther. A trim, apple-cheeked young law student at Heidelberg 30 years ago, Red Hilde was...