the Faith and its institutions had been banned by special order of the Reichsfuhrer Himmler in Germany.

In 1936, Nazism, so inimical to everything the Baha’i Faith stands for, gripped Germany in its hideous fist, and by the next year the Faith and its institutions had been banned by special order of the Reichsfuhrer Himmler. Baha’i books were confiscated, including those in personal libraries, and some meetings were proscribed. The Gestapo made so-called domiciliary visits to Baha’i homes, questioning Baha’is for hours, menacing them with pistols. A Dresden Baha’i spent six months in prison because a Baha’i prayer was found in his possession. Bulgaria allied itself with the Nazis and was a center of German espionage. Nevertheless, at the Guardian’s suggestion, Marion visited the German Baha’is in 1937. It was the last time she ever left Bulgaria.

(A Love Which Does Not Wait, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen, p 276)