斯圖加特悔罪書

這份文件是由德國著名神學家、信義宗牧師：弗里德里希·馬丁·尼莫拉（Friedrich Martin Niemoeller、1892－1984）、德國柏林布蘭登堡教堂主教弗里德里希·卡爾·奧托·戴貝里斯（Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius、1880-1967）、後來的德意志聯邦共和國（西德）總統古斯塔夫·海涅曼（Gustav Walter Heinemann、1899-1976）等十一人於1945年10月共同起草的，在這份聲明中，德國各新教教派的牧師正式承認他們對希特勒統治下的苦難負有連帶責任，是德國教會反省二戰錯誤的標誌性文件。

After the collapse of the National Socialist reign and the zero- point situation of the end of war as new start in August 1945 at the church meeting in Treysa (Hessen) the union of the "Evangelical Church in Germany" was decided. The Stuttgart Guilt Confession from October 1945 made further steps possible in the assembly. It sought to address unresolved questions of the direct past and to open the entrance to the world-wideOekumene[Ecumenism]. "On advisement, the Evangelical Church in Germany welcomes representatives of the Ecumenical [Worldwide] Council of Churches with its meeting on 18./19. October 1945 in Stuttgart. We are all the more grateful for this attendance, as we do not only recognize ourselves as a community of suffering people, but also stand in solidarity of the guilt. With great pain we say: Infinite wrong was brought by us over many peoples and countries. What we often testified in our municipalities, we express that now in the name of the whole church: doubtless we fought long years through in the name Jesu Christi against the Spirit, which found its terrible expression in the National Socialist Regime; but we find fault in ourselves that we more courageously did not admit, nor more faithfully prayed on, more vigorously did not believe and did not burn more with Christ's love. Now a new beginning is to be made in our churches. Based on the holy Scriptures, earnestly loyal to the exclusive headship of the Church, the Church seeks to separate and sanctify itself from influences strange to faith and reorganize. We hope to preach the Gospel and in willing obedience illuminate & commit the Word to the God of grace and mercy, that it will commit our churches as tools of the Word, addressing need and authority, for us and for our whole people. The fact that we may know ourselves with this new beginning in communion with the other churches of theOekumenischen[Ecumenical or Worldwide] community graciously fulfills us with deep joy.

We hope to God that by the common service of the churches that the spirit of force and retaliation which wish to create themselves anew today in all world is steered away, and the Spirit of the peace and Love comes to rule, in which alone tormented mankind can find recovery . Thus we ask in one hour, in which the whole world needs a new beginning: Veni Creator Holy Spirit! (come, Creator Spirit!)"

D Worm (Wuertt. national bishop)

Asmussen of dd (president of the Kirchenkanzlei of the EKD)

H. Meiser (national bishop Bayern)

Hero (ministers in meal, late Praeses the Rhine. Church)

Dr. Lilje (Secretary-General of the Lutheri world convention, late national bishop in Hanover)

Cock (ministers, later saechs. National bishop)

To Lic. drizzle (minister, theology professor)

Smend D.Dr. (theology professor)

Dr. G. Heinemann (attorney, late federal politician and Federal President)

Dibelius (bishop of Berlin Brandenburg)

Martin Niemoeller D.D. (minister, late church president of Hessen Nassau)

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