Rev. Paul Schneider, a Lutheran pastor, died in the camp gatehouse cellblock (see "Buchenwald") where he was sent when he refused to remove his hat to greet the swastika flag when Hitler's birthday was "celebrated" in the camp in 1938. Schneider continued to preach to his fellow prisoners from his cell window, even in solitary confinement. The SS finally killed him with a drug overdose in 1939. His surviving family and members of an association dedicated to his memory still commemorate his life on the anniversary of his death, July 18 (above). Albert Simon (below left), a Catholic soldier, is one of the many individual prisoners featured in the camp museum (see "Buchenwald"). His handmade prayerbook and crosses survive there (below right), testaments to the faith kept alive by imprisoned Christians.
