Germany's traditional and somber Repentance Day, almost forgotten under the Nazis, was celebrated with special fervor this year. Portly, bald Theology Professor Heinrich Vogel of the University of Berlin wrote a special prayer for the occasion. In the Evangelical churches (about 1,500) of Berlin and Brandenburg synod, German heads bowed piously to its words:
"God has made us as dirt and dung among the nations. . . . We are deserving of all that is happening to us at this time. It is our, fault, our great fault. . . . O God ....
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