German Protestants assist rebuilding notorious church
The Garrison Church in Potsdam, Germany, would seem an unlikely monument for present-day Christians to want to rebuild.
Located southwest of Berlin, it was the parish church of old-fashioned German militarism.
Built in 1735, the Garrison Church was where prewar Germany’s Protestant kaisers, kings, and generals went to pray for victory. The church is notorious in modern German history as the place where Reich president Paul von Hindenburg, a former general in full uniform with medals and spiked helmet, symbolically handed over power to the new chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1933.
